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Word: sinfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the Latin controversy has resolved into considering the merits of a compromise. And an absurd, worthless compromise it is. Its sin of omission is that in no way does it keep out students who are ignorant of Latin, any more than closing half a gate bars a passageway. Its sin of commission is that it has emasculated and maimed both dignities involved. For it turns out such fantastic freaks as Bachelor of Science in Music and Bachelor of Arts in Bio-Chemistry. These degrees must be revitalized. The distinction must be drawn between the B. S. derived from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KILL THE COMPROMISE | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

...hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages of sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. Nope, that gentleman is obviously describing a fish and in doing so is committing an advertising sin - he is diverting attention from the theme of the ad - autumnal hunting. . . . Personally, I'm going to stick to plain gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

Play, Genius, Play! (by Judith Kandel; Lew Cantor, producer) is another Sin & Temperament drama. A violinist who tires of fiddling, seeks surcease in the apartment of one of his brother's friends. The friend happens to be a lady in satin pajamas named Didi, and she gives him surcease aplenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Sin No. 3 is that Italians have been ordered to fight and kill. Benito Mussolini knows that for this there is no excuse, if it be "murder," but if ecclesiastical authorities decide he is making "war" they may be expected, as in the case of all previous wars, to decide that it is a "just war" and no sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dux | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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