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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only last week did news get out about what happened to three British seamen who, one day early in October, took a taxi ride in Keelung, on the Japanese island of Formosa. At the end of the ride, the driver had his three passengers jailed on the charge of not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Pen | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Aside from the quiet time, the distinguishing characteristics of the Buchmanite movement consist of a use of confession, psychologically a perfectly satisfactory method of relieving the mind (and one that the Catholic Church has been availing itself of for some time), their admitted social discrimination, and an insistence on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Like its 22 sister papers of the lively, crusading Scripps-Howard chain, the New York World-Telegram (circulation: 395,000) has plugged for Franklin Roosevelt with friendly reporting, vigorous if unin spired editorials from the Washington bureau headed by George B. ("Deac") Parker. High point of Scripps-Howard editorializing came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Unquestionably these measures have borne fruit. Whether it is advisable to stop there, however, is an entirely different question. Recent changes in English A bring this problem into full focus. This fall an additional "escape" was offered to "upper seventh" Freshmen who did not pass their college boards with seventy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRUEL FOR THE WEAK | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

As one dumb layman who is much better versed in the pathology of alcohols than in the chemistry of benzoates, I am not qualified to comment on the chemist's claims. But as a' bored layman who is tired of all this prattle about professional ethics, and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A. M. A. Attitude | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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