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Word: decently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we want is a short, clear creed, acceptable to the decent common man everywhere, that will act like a trumpet call. Then we must proclaim it everywhere. ... If we fought with ideas as well as weapons, we should not only help to construct a world worth living in, but also shorten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace Aims | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...minimum of 400,000 children who are still working either part or full time and are not affected by the Wage and Hours Act prohibitions of child labor in interstate commerce industry alone. It does include an army of children who never get the minimum fair opportunity of a decent grammar and high school education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD WITH A HOE | 2/8/1941 | See Source »

...Deprived of decent educational opportunities the young are doomed to a life of poverty and frustration. It is small wonder that they are disillusioned, that they say they have nothing to fight for, that they are impatient with those who day in and day out talk about saving democracy and at the same time oppose every measure, such as Federal support of education or improved social laws, which would go far to establish real democracy in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Older Generation Said to Be at Fault for Cynicism of Youth | 2/7/1941 | See Source »

There is not one decent, sensible story in Presenting Moonshine. Author John Collier is crazy as a hoot owl. But perched on the gnarled limb of satire, he blinks down with dry wisdom at a world much crazier than he. Effortlessly he glides into madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoot Owl at Large | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle. Said he, referring to his deal with the scrapmen last fall: "The Government didn't ask for a written guarantee. We went away from the meeting with the feeling that we would get a large volume of scrap at decent prices but . . . the price has been inching up and inching up, and the required quantities of scrap have not been coming out. . . . We will not let scrap run to $40 or $50 or $60 just because somebody believes that is the way to get out the available tonnage." Henderson made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capacity Fight | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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