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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look on us as un-neutral. Do you think we can write permanent legislation at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By-Products | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Dick Grondahl pushed a single into right, which the fielder promptly threw to the grandstand to confound the catcher who was trying to cut off speeding Johns, Hoye going to third. Lupien slapped a long triple over the center-fielder's head, scoring Hoya and Grondahl. Soltz repeated the process, Lupien tallying...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Stahlmen Take Fifth Straight As Healey, Brackett Coast To Victory | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

...Yale's barrier supremacy two weeks from today. Mase Fernald is an old hand and a good one, but not yet in very food condition. Sophomores Don Donahue and Roger Schafer, whose attendance at practice is sometimes sporadic, are not only white hopes for the future but plenty hot right now. And Junior Bill Laverack, who hasn't the speed of the others, possesses perhaps the most perfect form...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Track Team Tackles Purple, Huskies; Nine trims Tiger 13-2 in Fourth Win | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

...javelin and discus events Harvard is not strong. Fulton Cahners is perhaps the best bet in the latter, while Sophomore javelin artist Tom Lacey, former Exeter star, may find himself after a not-too-successful Freshman year if conditions are right...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Track Team Tackles Purple, Huskies; Nine trims Tiger 13-2 in Fourth Win | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

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