Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of evil" each man must find his own answer, the President stated, and "not attempt to dodge the problem by wishful thinking." He attacked the enervating effect of an individual's or a generation's self-pity and found cause for some optimism in history's recital of unfulfilled evil prophecies...
...Democrats also can-and sometimes do-jail Democrats. The high moral character of Democrat Frank Murphy, who says he has never made an appointment for purely political reasons, permits no recognition of party lines if Evil is involved. Attorney General Murphy's men put mighty Boss Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars (TIME, May 29). They went after judges they thought were crooked (see p. 17). High-minded, capable judges and law enforcement officers replaced unsavory political characters...
...forth with a report on Education at Harvard. One cannot but feel, as long as there are already so many whited sepulchres elbowing one another in obvious scholastic and social discomfort in this friendly-or-feudal community, that maybe the Council has hit upon the whole root of the evil--for if Harvard is not essentially designed for education, three centuries of Faculty and students have been badly duped...
...month came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little Lina Medina had an abdominal tumor, Dr. Lozada examined her, received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant...
...bituminous operators, however, the strike was by no means an unmixed evil. On April 1 total bituminous coal stocks had piled up to 40,550,000 tons-nearly a six-week supply at the average rate of U. S. consumption (1,000,000 tons per day). Not all this accumulated coal was shoveled away during the strike...