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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the revolution in 1911, oldtimers told me, the profession fell upon evil days and two handed chopping such as you describe took the place of the neat, single-handed slicing with the result that often two and three blows were needed to complete the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Swiss temperance organizations have lately been pressing their fight against distilled spirits. Charts showing the Evil Effects of Alcohol on the Human Stomach have been broadcast, big advertisements have been printed in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Impressively Negative | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Five generals with a force large enough to exterminate a number of unpatriotic countrymen who have uprisen in the states of Lara, Trujillo and Portuguesa, left yesterday for those districts. Exterminate this nest of rebels from the very roots in order to free those unfortunate districts of evil doers who should be exterminated radically by material force of the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Exterminate! | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Have seen there was no evil in her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Word After Another | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Before him now, he was not sure that evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Word After Another | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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