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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day reporters rushed to Secretary Hull's regular press conference at 12:30 p. m. "Gentlemen," said the Border Statesman, giving them a glacial stare, "I have nothing to say on the City of Flint or transference to the Panama flag."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ethical Question | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"There won't be any adequate shelters provided until there is a change of policy after the first raid. Probably there will be 500 or more dead. That would be nothing in an indiscriminate bombing of 5,000,000 persons."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: ARP Bombed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pitcairn's Plight | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a good imitation of an arch housewife who, having made her family believe they would get nothing but pork & beans for supper, bounces beaming out of the kitchen with a big, beautiful platter of cookies. Three weeks ago the Academy, which awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cookies from Stockholm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

It is a settled policy of La Prensa never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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