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Word: dis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine is just what I've been seeking. I read many publications that purport to serve a similar need, but in each case I have been dis- appointed. Rehashes and incoherent excerpts are not only bewildering but maddening. Your magazine covers the ground in a style that is both provocative and individual. I wish to goodness I had been a subscriber from the first issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis-covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bilking, Tub-Thumping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will be one final day of judgment for all who have lived upon earth? Answering ministers and theological students were given a choice of belief, dis belief, uncertainty. Of the ministers, 60% believed in the Devil but only 53% gave him a Hell in which to live. The students' score, also seemingly illogical, was 11% in belief of a real Hell but only 9% in belief of a real Devil. From the mass of contradictory credences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What is Believed | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Annie C. Bill, Parent Church leader: ". . . the implication that the truth found in Science and Health was wholly the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy must be withdrawn. This does not mean that I have in the slightest degree lost confidence in Christian Science. A dis- tinction must be made between the medium through which truth reaches the world and the truth itself. The truth I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Last Move | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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