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Word: cramped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed to all movements, institutions and practices which tend to cramp and confine the human personality and prevent its proper development, but they are also actively engaged in helping those movements which tend to release, develop and expand the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Passed a bill to cramp the operations of "diploma mills" (mailorder "colleges") in the District of Columbia; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...hasty printing but he should congratulate himself on the brief time necessary for registration. In the majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest in the human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering. To be sure there are appended duties such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SIMPLE LIFE | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

Without hope I decided to disregard the advice of doctors of the type of Dr. Cramp and went to Dr. Cunningham with the results that in two weeks I was off insulin and on an increased diet and today am a healthy man eating what I want and am no exception to the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Cramp to say that Dr. Cunningham's statements are unsupported is, to say the least, misleading. Results count and I am only one of many who are alive today through Dr. Cunningham's treatment and we all feel that it is a shame that there are those who condemn without investigation, and thus discourage those with so-called hopeless diseases who might be cured or greatly benefited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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