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Word: sinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans with a few marks to spend trudged to their cinemas last week to get their first official Nazi-eye view of what Americans are like. They saw a bloodcurdling, Grade-B thriller, showing Americans glorying in sin, sadism and corruption. The picture's title: Vom Winde Verweht (Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vom Winde Verweht | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...would be caught in your tortures - and they are your own best disciples. They steal and lie and become traitors if need be, but only because they are strong and others are weak." "Enough," cried the Devil, losing his temper. "You fool. Heydrich! I am old and I know sin. It is punishable and some times it is an art. But you are not even subtle. You and the men like you are only nasty little boys who like to pull the wings off birds. You wouldn't understand my hell. Not even in the seventh circle, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...have no alternative as a nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians acknowledged that the U.S. was not entirely guiltless ("Our own hands are not clean, nor our own hearts without sin"), called on the U.S. to abandon isolationism forever and accept "her rightful share of the responsibility for building a world order," and declared that "our nation must be prepared . . . even at heavy sacrifice ... to enter a world society whose goal is a sovereign good which transcends national sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War, Peace and the Church | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...they heaved those fosslis in their anger was a sin...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...Radio Reader (CBS, Monday through Friday, 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T.), another bookish experiment. Invitation to Learning's sensible Mark Van Doren (TIME, Nov. 24) started the program by reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which offered housewives a change of pace from other sin-and-suffer programs, gave bedfast patients in hospitals something worth listening to. Van Doren makes no attempt at Dramatic emphasis but reads articulately and quietly. He opens with a summary of the dramatic situation, reads 14 minutes (without skipping), stops when his time runs out. If listeners like the program (first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Revolution? | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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