Word: eviler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senator Stanford. Some have maintained (and with some truth) that the endowment was made possible because of certain construction company profits made in the early days of the Central Pacific, when the Senator was associated with the C. Crocker Company, Collis P. Huntington, and Mark Hopkins the four evil geniuses of the undertaking...
More than one evil consequence attends the forthcoming destruction of the Rogers Building. This measure deprives the School of the Drama of its only home, turning the students of stagecraft all too melodramatically out into the snow. And far more disastrously, it paves the way for a fire-station the evils of which to Georgian facade can palliate...
...leaders in education have been ringing the changes on the danger to sound thinking involved in the excessive specialization of college departments. The burden of the argument has been similar, whether it came from Professor Dewey, Dr. Flexner, or President Hutchins at Chicago. The universities themselves have recognized the evil, but with few exceptions, have not taken the action which that recognition implied to be necessary...
...trying him for attempting to evade payment of a $215,000 Federal Tax on $1.038,000 income from 1924 to 1929; Judge James Herbert Wilkerson; Prosecutor George Emmerson Q. Johnson; Defense Attorneys Michael Ahern and Albert Fink. After hearing Snorkey linked to Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil" to eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated to a detailed description of the rich raiment in which Gangster Capone clothed himself. Eleven rustic...
...alike, impress reasonable minds as having built up a formidable argument at the expense of clear duty and justice. It is not wholly a formidable case, at that. The generality with which your editorial states that funds raised in such a way would be negligible in comparison with the evil worked on administrative policy, seems to indicate a trifle of uncertainty, of lack of self-conviction, on your own part. I do not like to see either you or President Lowell practice intellectual acrobatics, or, what is worse, fall back on a safe, selfish administrative policy in order to escape...