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Word: inhuman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Specialists | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...consistently on some straight "path" toward some nebulous "goal". It is taken for granted that the aspiring candidate for an A.B. will not waste time, that every hour of his working day will be used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALUE OF WASTING TIME | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Maxim Litivinoff's cry that Britain and France were "avoiding a problematical war today in return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." Perhaps Hitler raised his demands to a limit which could not even be acceptable to such betrayers of faith as Chamberlain and Daladier. It is inhuman that Hitler should be granted further land concessions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL, AMERICA! | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

...have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat. Let me be a lesson to you." ¶ After 35 years of married life, Linda Gaddy Bilbo of Poplarville, Miss, last fortnight was divorced by Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment of the Senator (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week she announced that she might run against him for the nomination in 1940. Said she: "I've been in politics as long as the Senator and it's time I received some benefits for my work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Third Termites | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Linda Gaddy Bilbo; by Mississippi's U. S. Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo; in Poplarville, Miss. Grounds: cruel & inhuman treatment of the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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