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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juveniles, and I am definitely opposed to the general idea that all things should be done so that the youngest and most stupid among us should not be hurt. TIME is written by adults for adult minds-by all means keep it that way and permit those who see evil in all things to cancel their subscriptions. You are better off without them. BARNETT DAVIS Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...been the Legislature's reluctance to legislate a tax bill. That the Dorrance largess, one-fourth of which was interest on the original amount due, was a beautifully-timed blessing seemed apparent to everyone but State Senator Charles E. Loizeaux. Snapped he: "This is just staving off the evil day. . . . Next year there won't be any Dorrance money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Soup Relief | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Grand Rapids provisionally accepted the calamity but never really believed it. It was certainly not the fault of Grand Rapids, said its citizens, but of the evil loose in the world and the merchandising policies of Simmons. In 1934 the City of Grand Rapids hired an industrial engineer to survey the possibilities of reopening Berkey & Gay. Grand Rapids businessmen went into a huddle with promoters. Promoter Frank Donald McKay, who had worked in Grand Rapids furniture factories as a boy. had a long string of organizations and reorganizations to his credit. Poker-faced, astute, potent in Michigan politics, he served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grand Rapids Heroism | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

English A, as was the case last year, comes in for the lion's share of criticism in the Committee report. The shaft leveled at the section men hits an evil as troublesome as ever but one which it should be easy to correct. It is a commentary upon the workings of University Hall that the opening gun of last year's report, the recommendation that teaching ability be made the chief criterion in choosing section men for this course, should have to be sounded off again in the new report. The lack of coordination between section men, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YARD STATES ITS CASE | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...however, is the revealing light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HANDSOME IS...." | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

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