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Word: resents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion-feeding time. A smart literary tradesman, Feuchtwanger dresses up his vast windows on the past with a brilliant, meticulous reconstruction of Roman society in the iridescent stages of dissolution. His characters he treats with a superior irony which his devotees deeply admire, but in which others sometimes resent a rather rabbinical roguishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Tragedy | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...effort to provide an adequate supply of pilots for the war and for an enlarged civilian service later on, Congress has decided to enlarge the resent program, Emmons revealed. Although the exact direction that this expansion will take has not yet been determined, it is possible that the scholastic requirements for admission will be relaxed to allow high school students to enroll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMMONS ASKS DEFERMENT OF CAA STUDENTS | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

...resent this article greatly, and I frankly think that I am not the only one in the State of Georgia who does so-for, after all, it is worth while bearing in mind that Eugene Talmadge was elected Governor of the State of Georgia by the people of Georgia. . . . Governor Talmadge had the misfortune to slip and fracture his ribs, and being a man 57 years of age it naturally affected him more than it would a younger person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Guard brokers still think of Merrill Lynch as a lucky upstart, resent its flashy merchandising methods, stick to their traditions of not publishing any annual reports at all. But none of them sneered at M.L.'s profit figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prospering Upstart | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...last week. As ever, the Axis radio searched for the chinks between friendly peoples, insinuated between them its calculated lies, its bacilli of rumor. The British were told that U.S. admirals secretly rejoiced at the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. The Americans were told to resent the British command of Far Eastern land forces. Disappointment was encouraged among the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By the Ears | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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