Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evil is one of the oldest classics of human nature. It is usually taught by people morally illiterate and mentally corrupt, when it should be an important part of the education of youth, taught as a classic, carefully analyzed and defined with reference to preparing adolescent people for dealing intelligently rather than emotionally or weakly with instincts-not merely of the body but of the mind...
...pretends to the best of his ability that he is innocent, and to be actually found out is the last thing he wants to happen." Thus Mrs. Lundy Howard (Corra May) Harris, novelist (A Circuit Rider's Wife, My Book and Heart), last week appointed Professor of Evil at Rollins College, Florida...
Blast furnaces are lurid enough to make striking symbols, and to many churchmen they have long been symbolic of evil. Few churchmen have ever been able to think of a blast furnace without considering how uncomfortable it would be to work near one and what long days the grimy, bemuscled thousands of the steel industry spend at their laborious, heated calling...
...open after hours. Such a suspicion may be totally unjustified, but if professors in the departments of science are carrying on nefarious and inhumane experiments after dark behind the closed doers of Harvard laboratories, and unfortunately this seems to be the only logical explanation for such a silence, the evil should be exposed and uprooted at once, before it assumes major proportions and jeopardizes the safety of belated biology students. Researches which involve the disappearance of the pets of Beacon Hill are hardly justified even in the name of science...
...present evil times for chiropractors they blame vaguely on Dr. Palmer. But Dr. William H. Werner of New York City, slickly barbered president of the American Bureau of Chiropractic and hence technical head of the profession, went to his defense, venomously: "It's all wrong for you to go on cursing and damning and abusing B. J. It is not right folks. He is human. He has his little weaknesses, as who among us has not? He has his faults. But let us not go on cursing, abusing, and damning him. ... I tell you, friends, it gave me a heartache...