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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body-despising" ideals of Christians and Feminists. Says he: "There is no such thing today as a guilty conscience about bodily depravity. ... A clean mouth full of natural teeth, firmly set in unimpaired gums; a clean fresh tongue, not even slightly furred by incipient chronic indigestion; a sweet breath and the natural fragrance of a healthily functioning body?who knows love as Nature intended him to know it if he has not known these things? How many modern men and women can know love in this form ?" Counters Mrs. Russell: "Was love more delightful, then, in the old days when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex War | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled. To him revenge was very sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revenge | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name of "Cow Pasture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From the Sea | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...leader entitled "Signer Mussolini's Apology," The Times did some "rectifying" in its own, sweet way. It began by asking what right 3,000,000 Fascisti had to claim that they represented a politically organized nation of 40,000,000 people. "If, as Mussolini says," the newspaper continued, "the discontented are but a small group, why is it necessary to gag the press, forbid free speech, forbid public meetings and arm the executive with arbitrary and irresponsible powers? We believe Mussolini sincerely and earnestly desires the welfare of Italy. We are convinced this policy is not in the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Controversy | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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