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Word: softheartedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This quality, however, is perhaps necessary to the grandeur of the total effect. Sandburg's prose is mostly direct, savored, terse, with scarcely a perfunctory or a pretentious sentence. If it had a smell it would be leaf smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Few hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Off Dead | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic," eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes (Parliament).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Father Out | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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