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Word: sevening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only race against which the South ordinarily displays feeling is the colored race. Last fortnight, in Baltimore, the northernmost of Southern cities, feeling was expressed against another race, the Aryan. Seven U. S. citizens, aged 14 to 16, wrote a letter to 40 Germans, aged 14 to 16, visiting as exchange students in Baltimore homes. Baltimore papers promptly copied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Baltimore v. Aryans | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...history of the English law covering abortion packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Test Case | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland Yard to arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Test Case | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Self-Evident Subtlety | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Order of Servants of Mary (Servites) is a Roman Catholic mendicant order, founded in 1233 by seven noble Florentine youths in devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. There are only 65 Servites in the U. S. In proportion to their numbers, those 65 fathers last week were by far the busiest of any religious order in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Air-Conditioned | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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