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Word: lusted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courts," continued, "this matter is based on reaction of the average man. We do make our decisions according to the reaction of literary critics. The important using is whether the lewd or questionable arts of the books we must pass judgement upon will have the effect of promoting lust...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Municipal Judge Derides Book-Banning, Urges Common Sense to Guard Morals | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Caco | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...incredible that a people with such profound Christian faith, with its glorious history, with the oldest parliamentary tradition of the Continent, would join in a hymn of hatred and willingly submit to the blood lust and brigandage of tyranny. No man can love God and hate his brother. No one who hates his brother can be a faithful follower of the gentle Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritualty We Are Semites | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...used to sell insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads to airfields where later paratroopers would land. Word trickled back to their base last week that at least some of them were still alive-and therefore, of course, still fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: 13 Paratroopers | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Renaissance man's splendid sensual joy and lust for life, as expressed by the 16th-Century Italian painter, Piero di Cosimo, in time degenerated into the jaded 19th-Century taste that produced Manet's famed "boy-like courtesan," Olympia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balancing Act | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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