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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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To tell the New Yorker anything is impossible. Perhaps that is why he is so ignorant. Even Greenwich Village is sophisticated to the last degree, hardened in its own imbecility. Humor ... is totally lacking. The typical New Yorker never laughs. To him it is a confession of credulance. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In the Shenandoah | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

The confession of Salas is considered particularly fortunate in political circles, as the crime was freely spoken of in connection with "one of the leading candidates for the Presidency."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slayer of Villa | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

Epilogue to the recent syndicated siege of " Books That Have Helped Me Most," "Books to Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Dullest Authors Lawrence Number One | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

The effect of the drug is somewhat similar to hypnosis, inhibiting all the special senses of the body except hearing, and paralyzing the judgment and critical faculties. When a patient in this state is plied with questions, Dr. House claims, the auditory centers "set off" the chain of memory, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Truth-Compeller | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

The Fundamentalists. In 1643 was written the Westminster Confession, the constitution of Presbyterian faith. It substituted the authority of the Bible for the authority of the Roman Pope, and it held that the Bible is " the only infallible rule of faith and practice." But who shall decide what the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indianapolis | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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