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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is but a small step in the right direction. Far more important is the opening of Widener on Sundays. This is a large demand, but it can be quite simply granted, although certain financial facts must be first considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES ALIKE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...Institute's broad marble stairs to open Pittsburgh's social season and the 37th International. They spent more time looking at each other than they did at the pictures. But all of them at least glanced at Georgia Jungle. Jack Nash, as usual, had been right. It had won the $1,000 first prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 37th International | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...usual, critics mourned that the right artists were being honored at the wrong time. More direct cause for mourning came from the fact that this will be the last Carnegie International until the end of World War II. War I stopped the show for six years; Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 37th International | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Allied war aims are: continuation of Versailles policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will not be achieved by this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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