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Word: etting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...corporation can be sued for alienation of affections (case of Louis Gold v. Pocket Brassiere Co., Inc., et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ass, A Idiot | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Revolution | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...would have been worse than vain." After the last war, the Times pointed out, a myth grew up that the U. S. went to war, not out of "the clear-sighted recognition of the need of defeating Germany at that time," but because it had been tricked by propaganda, et al. Said the Times reprovingly: "We should not permit now the creation of the myth that we have to be tricked into taking actions to insure Hitler's defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Smart Trick | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Leafing back through its own catalogue and those of Okeh, Vocalion and Brunswick (which it controls), Columbia reissued 40 discs of oldtime hot stuff-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson's band, Singer Bessie Smith, et al. Further Columbia reissues will enable latecomers among the jazz collectors to plug gaps in their libraries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography-the boy spent hours browsing in the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, two blocks from his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: His Name Is an Engine | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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