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Word: accidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeff Davis, sickly, handsome, humorless, egocentric, unimaginative, contrasted almost as sharply with Lee as with Lincoln. Almost kicked out of West Point, where he was 23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Cabinet | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Was it a hoax, as the French charged, a fake accident staged and executed by Hitler's own henchmen to bring the Führer close to martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

The main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

On British casualty lists was Actor Leslie Howard, 46, victim of an automobile accident in a London blackout. Actor Howard's injuries included a fractured jaw, three broken front teeth, unspecified damages to brow and chest.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Recently Escaped Accident

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Killed Bicycling Way to Game | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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