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Word: wickeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After closing all London shows when war began, the British Government fortnight ago announced that theatres more than a mile and a half from London's West End could stay open until 10 p. m. Instantly members of the leftwing, nose-thumbing Unity Theatre Club-whose Babes in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: We Haven't Got the Jitters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

To get around to all these exploits Superman not only has to fly through the air, but to swim faster than a ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

In Western (Christian) Civilization we still have left the conception of heroism based on the Arthurian Cycle. Mothers still tell their children tales of the strong and the brave who conquer the wicked, cruel giant or dragon or witch. It seems a little too much to swallow when St. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Isolationists snorted at the proposal that good money be sent abroad after bad. But the President explained that the borrowers were to be good South American neighbors, not wicked European defaulters. The money would all be spent in or for the U. S., opening and reconstructing export markets. Moreover, Jesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Revolving Rabbit | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

It was my good fortune to be a member of Mr. Hutchins' sophomore English during the spring of 1936. I don't believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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