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Word: philo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zimmer, Mann owed more than his plot. From his Maya, a translation (into German) of a gigantic compendium of Hindu mythology, Mann took detail, background, much, very likely, of his philo-symbological machinery. It is Dr. Zimmer too who best summed up this novel: "It is as if Hindemith composed a one-act opera, availing himself of the motifs from The Twilight of the Gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transformed Legend | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...France, England, and the United States. Till now there has been no adequate English biography of this philosopher-prophet, only a few commentaries by such authors as H. L. Mencken, whose book is more Mencken business than Nietzschean, and W. H. Wright, alias S. S. Van Dine, creator of Philo Vance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 4/9/1941 | See Source »

...Philo Sherman Bennett prize of $350, for the best essay on free government, went to Phil C. Neal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARDS FOR ESSAYS ANNOUNCED HERE | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

Last week, George Tidd did a lot of talking for a strong, silent man. He spoke at a special stockholders' meeting to get approval of a $30,000,000 construction program, 15% more than in 1939 (including 80,000 kilowatts of new generating capacity at Philo, Ohio, 25,000 at Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tidy Tiddbit | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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