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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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I have never seen a finer spirit than that of the outgoing Administration. One hears among its members only good wishes for the new Administration, expressions of desire to be of any possible service. After all, they are good Americans and in foreign relations more than any other activity of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASTLE HOPES FOR SANE GOVERNMENT FROM DEMOCRATS | 3/2/1933 | See Source »

This morning the Vagabond is sick unto death of culture. The Cantabrigian mists, swirling their gyral shapes about the familiar tower, serve as an ethereal transport for his soul, and carry it to far climes. There, the allusions of Professor Babbitt forgotten, the Vagabond recalls an author he once read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student vagabond | 2/24/1933 | See Source »

Though the annual report is yet unpublished, La Salle Street hears that the company earned between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 in the last quarter of 1932 against a loss of $4,297,000 the first nine months. Montgomery Ward executives, who almost always have a Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 6,000,000 Catalogs | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Many a Catholic, says Father McCaffrey, is ignorant as to the church's teaching on the sacrament of Penance, which requires genuine sorrow rooted in an "intellectual appreciation" of sin and a firm purpose of amendment as well as simple confession. Many a non-Catholic misunderstands Penance, too; Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church & Jail | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chaucer Polished | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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