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Word: confession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Including Film Fun, Screen Romances, I Confess, etc.; also Modern Romances. Modern Screen Magazine (sold exclusively through Kresge and Kress stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sporting Ad-cracker | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...About to depart for a "rest" in Palm Springs, Calif., Mayor James John Walker aroused his critics to fury by remarking to a group of social workers: "I will confess that I have been more or less shocked by the reports of the framing of innocent women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Five Star Final | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...certain that a magazine of your high repute and obvious desire for accuracy would not publish such a statement unless it possessed some foundation in actual fact. I am always interested in my father's activities, but confess with shame that in regard to this aspect of them I am woefully ignorant. May I, therefore, inquire what is the basis of truth on which you rely for the allegation contained in the words I have italicized and in particular how long and in what way this has been going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...free to confess that in the treatment of professors at Rollins College we do not carry out this Twelfth Century program anything like completely, but its underlying idea--namely that professors are made for the students, not students for the professors--is likewise the idea at Rollins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

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