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Word: resentational (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Catholics should send missionaries and religious teachers to South America. President Contares of Venezuela offered to give land for a Catholic college as soon as U. S. bishops furnish priests. On the other hand, South Americans resent U. S. Protestant proselytizing, deplore the fact that, instead of going after the pagan and the unchurched, U. S. missionaries (except the Episcopalians) attempt to convert good Roman Catholics to Protestantism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Amateur Diplomats | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Progressive tries to make clear this causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large part of the student body feel superior to and indifferent about Cambridge. He thinks its inhabitants are not only poor and ignorant but also unimportant." The townies sense and resent this attitude and hence the causa belli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAIR AND WARMER | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

Since TIME prides itself on accurate reporting, it may not resent my calling its attention to certain crucial misstatements of fact in "Imperishable Thoughts" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

According to Rodgers & Hart, Hollywood's trouble is stupidity, not malice. "And you can no more resent stupidity in a movie director than in an elevator boy." Headline boner where they were concerned came when, in the sheet music made for Mississippi, Swanee River was credited to "Rodgers & Hart." They differ concerning Hollywood's financial rewards. Hart believes they could make more money there than on Broadway, but prefers to forego it because he loves the theatre. Rodgers feels that a Hollywood income may be more certain but that only in the theatre can musicomedy writers really strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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