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Word: sinse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt's conscience hurt her: she told newspaper women last month at a press conference that she was ashamed to find herself going to a private lunch in a White House car, thus wasting gas and rubber. In My Day she called attention to her sins of travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Lady Slows Down | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

The practitioner of the gentle art of elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

That a paper which many newsmen rated "the least fair and reliable" should be an outstanding success does not mean that its journalistic sins are profitable. The Tribune's success can be laid to other factors than its news. It has always had a great and tough circulation department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Newspapers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

These sins of omission lessen the weight of the book. The question: What sort of man is Franklin Roosevelt? is not yet clear enough to answer. Mr. Johnson's shrewd argument-that the President is not only a democrat, but a great one-may remove fears that many Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dictator or Democrat? | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

It would not be out of character if Newshawk and Lecturer Pierre van Paas sen girded up his loins with a goatskin, brushed wild honeybees from a matted beard, strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Prophet | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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