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Word: wickeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voluble Admirals. Meanwhile admirals called as witnesses before the Foreign Relations Committee continued to discharge broadsides of professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For-Senators-Only | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

"The sophisticated youngster proves that he is unsophisticated by his insistence that he is sophisticated. A young man who is really wicked takes an entirely different attitude. He pretends to the best of his ability that he is innocent, and to be actually found out is the last thing he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professor of Evil | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

City of Sin? Sodom, so wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

William C. ("Coke") Mason was a one-time factory hand from Ohio, whom his boyhood pal George Regan coached, bullied, kidded into a middleweight boxer of championship calibre. Soon after Coke left the factory, his wife, a small-time gold digger with big-time aspirations, left him flat. Coke brooded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boxer | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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