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Word: inhuman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady with green eyes, real green eyes. Of course I am not sufficiently pessimistic to say that I have never seen a lady. But with green eyes? No. I saw one with a green dress at the Pops though, last Saturday night. She was divine, if divine means inhuman. For really they don't make them in that model any more. I had just heard the Spring Song and was smoking a very good cigar, Corona Belvedere (adv.) and for a moment I forgot that Plato had very little regard for the less intellectual sex. But it was only...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...gallant military lover, serves her family in season and out; hands over a later suitor-her last chance-to her lovelorn cousin; fusses over the little nephews and great-nephews as they grow up into soldiers, painters and poets out of the mercantile tradition of the family. Aricie grows "inhuman through excess of altruism," a woman who kills herself with kindness to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bourgeois | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Anthropology, it was said: "Although anthropology is technically the most human course in college, the way it is taught deserves no such high praise. Not that it is inhuman at all, for Anthropology 1 is one of the mediocre courses which are at once the curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Although Anthropology is technically the most human course in college, the way it is taught deserves no such high praise. Not that it is inhuman at all, for Anthropology 1 is one of those mediocre courses which are at once the curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCKS AND ROSES INTERMINGLED IN CRIMSON'S NEW CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...inhuman ages, alien as the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Tolerance | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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