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Word: foulest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: In-Fighting | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...industry experienced nine beautiful months, then the foulest final quarter on record. In 1938 U. S. industry experienced six months of stagnation, then six of brilliant recovery. It was logical to expect, therefore, that corporate earnings for 1938 would turn out to be substantially, but not appallingly, below 1937. By last week enough year-end statements were out to show that, with the inevitable exceptions, this was the case. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Evidence and Opinion | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Year cover is to me the lowest and foulest thing TIME has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...sodomy against an 18-year-old girl. Muckraker Liggett's Wife Edith promptly countercharged that "Governor Floyd B. Olson's gang" was trying to "disgrace and discredit Walter by making the alleged offense as dirty and infamous as possible. . . . The prosecution of Walter is one of the foulest frame-ups ever engineered. . . . [Walter has] demanded the impeachment of the Governor on ten definite counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Court Troubles | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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