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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears to be my duty to bring you up to date about the crime conditions here in Indianapolis so vividly described in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...true that Indianapolis has been "frightened" during this crime wave, but there appears to be no further occasion for fright, and we think a very good job of police work has been done to meet an ugly situation, which, by the way, is not peculiar to Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Czech Communists promptly began wrapping their promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bread, Votes & Treason | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...limited number of copies may be procured this week at the Crime's business office on Plympton Street, between the hours of nine and five o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Telephone Book Arrives Today | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

Dean Pollock thought that it was no crime to sometimes split an infinitive, and that a preposition was often a good word to end a sentence with. But, he added, they should "avoid pushing every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Is Where You Say It | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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