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Word: refugee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humanism is a great deal more than an attitude toward art and letters. It has a sociology as important as its psychology. Aristotle's social animal is permitted by the humanist to have a safe refuge, the "Civitas Del, so dear to the Middle Ages, from the potential tyranny of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

When freed from his academic duties, Professor Abbott finds refuge "in the red house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portraits of Harvard Figures | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

The untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Water Margins Novel | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

From James M. Cain, a veteran of the days when the Mercury was indeed a sole refuge in a plague-ridden land, there come comments on Hollywood which reiterate the thesis repeated ad nauseam by this writer in these columns, viz., that movies cannot be good, but are excellent considering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 10/6/1933 | See Source »

Few victims of the Machado reign of terror knew what was in store for them. They were shot down peacefully in their own homes, like the Freyre de Andrade brothers, or murdered on their doorsteps like Editor Andre of El Dia, or shot from passing automobiles, or rushed without warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Back to 1901 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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