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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Political Parties, a Necessary Evil?" Professor Holcombe, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...that War-winter, a female lynx stalked Grischa for days, till suddenly he noticed her crouching to spring. So drolly did her crooked eyes and fringe of whiskers remind Grischa of himself, that he burst into a roar of terrifying human laughter, and unwittingly saved himself from fangs and evil claws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coffin to Coffin | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...very reluctant to create martyrs. But I shall do it if this evil propaganda persists. It engenders international suspicion of Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Count Contre Count | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan, exhumed by Mr. Whiteside for 1928. The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they did not reproduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Lunatic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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