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Word: delusional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction's Maignot Line | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

On Your Knees! Gravely the minister summoned his listeners to repentance. Freedom from want and fear is "cruel delusion." What mankind needs is penitence. Cried he: "After a year and ten months of the deadliest war this country has ever fought, we in the United States still have had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bazaine and Retain | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Roundup, U.S. soldiers' newspaper in Delhi, India, spoke earthy words against homesickness: "All you jerks want to return to the States because of some woman. This type of thinking, gents, is a snare and a delusion. . . . Now she's probably driving a six-by-six truck. When you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Advice to the Homesick | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Germans waiting at home got no cheer. Their radios and newspapers told them to be "under no delusion about the seriousness of the fighting." A German radio propagandist moaned about the Red Army's "enormous mass of tanks" and admitted that the German army's situation at Stalingrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: No. 3 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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