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Word: confessional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington will not long be lonely. Five other 35,000-ton battleships, two 45,000-tonners (largest in the world) are also abuilding for the Navy. Next to be launched is the 35,000-ton North Carolina next week (at the Brooklyn Navy Yard). But launching is not completion: not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Sixth Washington | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

THE LABYRINTHINE WAYS - Graham Greene - Viking ($2.50). Novelist Greene writes out-of-the-ordinary adventure stories (others: The Man Within, The Name of Action, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent), combining tense narrative and limbo-like atmosphere. In The Labyrinthine Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

The earliest of the essays, "On the Study of Politics," an admirable confession of faith, goes back to 1926, and the latest, "The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794," is of 1938. The intervening studies, "Law and Justice in Soviet Russia," "The Judicial Function," "The Committee System in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/28/1940 | See Source »

Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

To recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Party Life | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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