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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bitter? Perhaps I am, but Ceil, think how wonderful everything could be if only we would try to aim in the right direction. If only the rotten branches were cut off and cast away-the 'true vine' would then have a chance to thrive. Gosh I have my dreams, I can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Women may curtsy, putting left foot behind right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bids & Rules | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile, a victim of the rare, incurable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...figured that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt or some other, Jim Farley will accommodate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

There will be a post season match against Cornell on May 27, and on June 30 four members of the tennis team will join three players from Yale in a trip to England to play a series of matches against a joint Oxford-Cambridge team. Right now the four Harvard players, (the fourth member will go as an alternate) include Burt, Gilkey, Palfrey, and Muther...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

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