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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite officious interference from Philadelphia's jowly Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, whose homicide squad reported "nothing suspicious" in the deaths, scythe-nose Coroner Charles H. Hersch took charge. His investigators compared "The Klondike" with the Black Hole of Calcutta.-* The scene they reconstructed was as horrid as anything ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parboiled Prisoners | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

The House Committee on Un-American Activities headed by ham-handed Representative Martin Dies of Texas, after hearings in Washington which revealed it as nothing but an ill-planned, amateurish Red-hunt, last week heard some news of fascist propaganda but soon got back to its Red theme. From the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Un-American Week | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

¶A scandal of 1937 was that Nazi Labor Camps for boys were generally built close to the camps for girls, with a resulting high incidence of pregnancy. This summer, camps for the different sexes were separated, frequently by several miles. From Munich, however, accounts came last week of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Adam & Eve | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Brought to trial, Captain Amakasu had a good defense: he had gained nothing by Osugi's death; his was a purely patriotic murder. He was given only seven years and he was out in a little more than two. When the Japanese Army entered Manchuria and set up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Honorable Amakasu | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Hot on his analytical trail, Investigator Goodfellow extended his research to cover the program's dramatization of telepathy case histories. In one of them thought transference was said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Patterns and Peephole | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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