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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The move also served to tighten the Fascist-Nazi pincers on Yugoslavia. That nation is now surrounded on three sides, with Nazi Austria on the north, Fascist Albania on the south, and an Italian sea, the Adriatic, on the west. To make the picture complete, dissatisfied little Bulgaria, most defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week, on one of those days when international alarms flew thick & fast, the First Lord had occasion to speak extemporaneously. The First Lord was spending a social evening on His Majesty's aircraft carrier Ark Royal, anchored off Portsmouth. There was nothing unusual about the gathering except that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TROUBLE IS BREWING | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

(On Confession) : You cannot shock the priest. . . . There is nothing interesting about your sins . . . so there is no need to make a good story out of them. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

The marbles for which England is most famed are the Elgin marbles, a collection of Greek sculptures which Lord Elgin plucked from the Parthenon at Athens in the early 19th Century, now one of the most noteworthy possessions of the British Museum. To the natives of the little village of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Tinsley Green | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

His stunt started off hell-for-leather. Last week it was spavined, string-halted, wind-broken. Eleven of the twelve riders who finished had nothing but saddle galls to show for their trouble, were trying to rake up enough hay money to get back to North Texas, where they hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: SADDLE-GALL DERBY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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