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Word: mocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of manpower which must increasingly be used is the Negro worker. . . . First things must come first . . . the first job this nation has to do is to put a period to the peril which arises 'from ruthless men of force who care nothing for civil liberties and who mock at all appeals to humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tepees and Propaganda | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (Victor album; $2). For radio listeners to the mock-pompous announcements and the excellent hot playing of "Dr. Henry Levine and his Bare footed Dixieland Philharmonic" and "Maestro Paul Laval and his Woodwindy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night air raid on Los Angeles photographed both from the ground, where the stabbing searchlights may remind Californians of a market opening, and the inside of a B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber, where cinemaudiences can get a close-up of destruction in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...week six ex-comrades had testified before the Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City schools (TIME, March 17 et ante). They had named as Communists 64 teachers and clerks in three municipal colleges-Brooklyn, City and Hunter. The catalogue of Red activities was almost mock-sinister. The comrades were pictured as taking party pseudonyms, reading and writing Marxist literature, meeting secretly in each other's homes, issuing anonymous and scurrilous throwaways, sneaking stickers on subway windows, holding secret union '"fraction" caucuses, pleading with witnesses not to expose them. Although a witness accused them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schools v. Reds | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...field positions. Germany will attempt a radical military solution of the Mediterranean problem at the very moment when German strategy will profit from all chances of direct attack on England. The possibilities of invasion are considered so numerous that it will be impossible for the British immediately to recognize mock actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: The Enemies Agree | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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