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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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2) The return of Mr. Stokowski had nothing whatsoever to do with the highly publicized dismissal of Isadore Gusikoff, first cellist of the Orchestra. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

The obvious flaw in Mr. Suma's thesis is his careful avoidance of the basic question of the morality of one nation forcibly jamming its desires down the throat of a weaker neighbor. Then again, while he builds up an effective indictment against the Chinese for their part in hastening...

Author: By Rodman W. Paul, | Title: Guardian Features Article on Today's Germany; Defense of Japanese Policy | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

The point made by My Heart's in the Highlands is the old anti-Philistine insistence: that worldly success means nothing, that artistic failure means nothing, that what alone matters is man's vaulting imagination, his perdurable dream, the spiritual geography of his heart. On this theme Saroyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

So Mr. Flatto turned up for last week's meeting, claiming to hold 9,000 proxies representing 250,000 shares. He demanded to know what would happen if he had 300,000 shares and the management had 300,001. Mr. Carlton retorted that nothing would happen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Disease of the Times | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Lisbeth's other three men include an impeccable fiancé, an amiable American whom she met on a merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-Wodehouse | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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