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Word: meas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis considered the Federal War Mea sures Act an infringement of Quebec's autonomy, last week he ordered a provincial election for this montjjp-Promptly the Federal Government's Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe declared this an "unprovoked challenge." Most of Quebec's 3,500,000 French-Canadians bitterly opposed conscription in World War I, but the Government, having promised that there would be no conscription this time, thought it had a good chance of ousting the Isolationist Duplessis Government, of bringing Canada greater unity than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Plans & Progress | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...songs sung by Damon and Alphesiboeus. The poetic basis is found in the second love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne home"). This refrain is very effectively entoned by three trumpets behind the scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...MEA CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Denmark was startled by so naïve a culpa mea. The astounded magistrate asked for particulars. These, as Fru Bang stated them for record, caused discussion all over the world. For, like the young man who shot his invalid mother in France (TIME. Nov. 18, 1929), Fru Bang poisoned her invalid mother for mercy to her body. But unlike the young man, to whom God was "only a religious belief," she was concerned with the salvation of her mother's soul. The baroness' ailment, the two women believed, was incurable. Her suffering, they perceived, was unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mercy Murder | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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