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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The order of the English High Court of Justice had nothing to do with the divorce question, and merely confirmed the custody provisions of the Danish separation agreement, whereby the Countess has the custody of her son, Lance, for nine months each year until he is six years of age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Like Thomas Cowan, "Buck" Kester once had a conservative Presbyterian charge (in West Virginia), left it and Presbyterianism together. Now a Congregationalist, he busies himself with lecturing, organizing labor, and escaping from Southern towns which dislike agitators. Once he avoided being lynched by crawling on his belly for a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Southern Prophets | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week Bowler McGeorge and some of the boys decided to have a try at the slick alleys and new wood at the American Bowling Congress up in Cleveland. It was Bowler McGeorge's first A.B.C. appearance. When the crowd from Kent arrived, the A.B.C. was rumbling through its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

The opera turned out to be a sort of musical and dramatic palindrome.* Called Hin und zurück ("There and back"), it walked up to a tragic climax, then backed away from it like an ambassador in a throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palindrome Opera | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Said Eleanor Roosevelt, who has probably caught more trains and planes than any other U. S. woman: "Nothing on God's green earth would induce me to run for the Presidency."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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