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Word: ways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of Dr. Hooton's scientific approach, the public will find the implications clear: that criminals and prisoners are a debased lot; they were born that way; there is little hope for them. Advocates of the Mad-Dog school of penology finally have contemporary textbook backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with heavy, self-centred humor. He said he had always "hoped to make good in some big way," and now he had done so-"in the field of incompetency." Not since the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court, said he, had there been such opposition as there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parade of the Left | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...negative argued that far from suffering under the yoke of the fashion setters, the women actually enjoy it, since fashion was a way for women to express their independence of the world of men and work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Debaters Win From Vassar In Radio Debate | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Benjamin Bucklin '42 discovered a new way of settling competition in an affair of the heart yesterday when he placed Samuel Worthen '42 in handcuffs and threw the key under the subway train at Ashmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Wins Girl by Handcuffing Rival and Throwing Key in Subway | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...Teachers' Oath is in theory a harmless law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Federal and State Constitutions. Since Section 2a of this law stipulates that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principles of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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