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Word: sinse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"He will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Signs of the Times | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Why do people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

The same is true of the movies. People love to see people get by with, get paid for, the very sins they do in secret. The secular press and the movies are doing more to hasten the downfall of America through moral bankruptcy and spiritual blackout than all other agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

But rather than disappoint his readers, Author Cain does some thimblerigging with family birthmarks, and soon fixes things so that Kady is not Jess's daughter after all, and they may step out together hand in hand to enjoy more commonplace sins of Cain, such as adultery, bigamy, perjury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pandora & Pappy | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

In its harried career, the War Assets Administration has come in for some businesslike spankings. Last week the brush was laid on for fair. A House committee, in its final report on surplus property disposal, charged WAA with everything from "sloppy business methods" to "catastrophic failure." It also charged "inconsistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Run a Business | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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