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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barcelona's defense demonstrated that with intelligent air raid precautions, a whole day's series of five raids need not kill more than five people. But apparently nothing in the world can make the Chinese people defend themselves intelligently. Last week 18 Japanese planes flew three times over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: ARP | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Characteristic was Antonin Raymond's first U. S. publication: Architectural Details, published last week by The Architectural Forum. It contained not a word of theory but 116 pages of photographs and drawings of building techniques developed in Japan. In them and in furniture beautifully handmade after designs by his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Orient's Architect | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Nothing slows up a champion like excess weight; nothing eats up gas like a heavy car. The Studebaker Champion has been trained down by smart engineering until it weighs 500 Ib. less than its rivals. Studebaker swears this has brought no structural weakness, no less safety. Most of the weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Champion | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Elections are defended on the grounds than they provide much needed practice in the democratic process. But forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE NO | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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