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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Yankees needed only four games to prove that they were not odds-on favorites for nothing-not only better sluggers (for which they are famed) but better fielders, better pitchers-a well-oiled baseball machine that made the Cubs look as though they would have felt more at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Exit | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Professor of chemistry in the University of Kansas, Author Taft devotes more than half his book to the decades before 1870 when west of the Mississippi was the U. S. frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sun Picture Historians | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Last fortnight prepscholars scuffing the first fallen elm leaves around Andover, Mass, held an enviable artistic privilege- or so thought William Germain Dooley, art critic of the immortal Boston Evening Transcript. Just opened at Andover's starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bostonians at Andover | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

All anyone used to know about Allied's portfolio was its total ($92,000,000 in 1932). Because there were accepted rumors that it was composed of nothing but blue chips. Wall Street was horrified when Orlando Weber was badgered five years ago into admitting that the biggest single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: Secrets | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

That Elizabeth Madox Roberts was lost in one of these treacherous literary culs-de-sac became painfully clear to most critics three years ago, when she published her obscure, mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven. A difficult, humorless book, it had nothing of the earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kentucky Home-Coming | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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