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Word: wickeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, with tart wisdom in his spoofing, Dr. Herbert Levinstein, president of the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, addressed last week at Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Greybeards Forward! | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

"Child life is blighted and its future obscured and darkened by broken homes, broken in many instances by the selfish ness and lust of conscienceless and godless parents. This unchecked and growing evil, largely indulged in by people of wealth and position, destroys the sanctity of marriage and gives to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Atlantic City (Concl.) | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

Condemning the present age as a "wicked and adulterous generation," which "makes no reckoning of the disasters and misfortunes which inevitably attend its evil and lustful ways," the Episcopal Bishops appeal to the nation to return to the "good old days." Like medieval monks whose panorama of life was limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARPING CLERICS | 10/25/1934 | See Source »

Hide-Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Four years ago, gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Sir Henri had left the famed semicircular desk in St. Helen's Court, London, from which he rules the world's biggest producer of crude petroleum, to see with his own sharp eyes what the U. S. had done about oil. Said he darkly: "It is nothing short of amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deterding on Oil | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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