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Word: confess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 59 years, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera took the public completely into its confidence last week to confess the real state of its financial health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Phantom of the Opera | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...confess to being one of the luckiest, as well as the laziest, reporters who ever lived, but I have always drawn the line at larceny, especially from one of my fellow craftsmen. I particularly resent any intimation that I would practice banditry or burglary on Ray Clapper, whom I have always admired intensely and have regarded as one of the greatest newspapermen in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: LETTERS | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Ghostly Father, I Confess is both a vivid criticism and an ambiguous endorsement of the favorite emetic of Miss McCarthy's circle, psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Bottom of the Kennel | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...many weeks I'm to be an Army officer. But when I'm honest with myself I confess that throughout my training I've had in mind becoming an instructor, not because I thought I would be especially good as an instructor, but because I thought that would be the safest job I could find in my business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Out of the Hot Seat | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...National Congress Party and the Moslem League scheduled for the next fortnight. Said the Congress' Mohandas Gandhi: "In spite of my love for the British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The immediate thing, therefore, that the British Government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. Of the undoing there is as yet no sign visible in the Indian sky." The Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah still clung to the League's demands for a separate Moslem state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cripps Trip | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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