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Word: godlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such he looms a potent Hearst hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...State which has been host*to the Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Olympic Games | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Eager to establish the rights of atheists in the U. S., Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, chose to send godless propaganda to the Rev. Dr. John

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atheist Smith | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...United States not being a Christian nation and its godless Constitution requiring a secular government, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A. A. A. A. | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...juvenile variety of atheists. In The World's Work for June Homer Croy gives a survey of organizations which seem to be flourishing in certain schools and universities; united under the simple title of the Junior Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems to have collegiate ambitions, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

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