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Word: condemns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pettiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achievement. There is an enormous gap, we find, between the man and the artist?"the most many-sided of musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wagner | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...entirely condemn the decision of the Iroquois. There have been worse religions than the Iroquois axiom that all men have one body, one brain, one heart. Certain bold Aryan spirits, among them Rousseau, have had the temerity to hint forcibly that the white man's civilization has come far from converting the world into an earthly happy hunting ground. The Indians may go too far in their reaction, but some degree of reaction will be a blessing. Nothing is more disillusioning than to see the descendants of roving warriors, who dangled from their waists the dripping scalps of whole colonies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOMAHAWKING CIVILIZATION | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

...same reply is made by Protestants today. Protestant Churches established Prohibition. Protestant ministers preach war or peace, condemn or condone divorce, denounce corruption. Hitherto they have sidestepped the problems of industry, but now they are beginning to have something to say about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope and Politics | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...weight of responsibility for speeding up the cause of liberalism in American colleges therefore falls with peculiar soverity upon the undergraduates. Public opinion is sufficiently alert to condemn such obviously illiberal actions as that taken by the University of Tennessee; but the criticism of subservience and timidity among the student bodies must come from the undergraduates themselves. Certainly one effective means of causing such discussion and analysis is a constant exposure of the illiberal attitude into which, through want of mental energy and alertness collegiate bodies are likely to fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF HABIT | 5/28/1924 | See Source »

...favor all measures, either through the league or outside it, looking towards the concerted reduction of all classes of armament; but until such concert is reached among the nations, we favor the maintenance of our national defenses and condemn the Republican Administration for its neglect of our military and naval establishments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATS PUT THEIR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

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