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Word: wickedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull said that he had previously obtained assent from the steering committee for the Conference, by a suspension of the rules, to grasp its supreme opportunity of erecting the Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pillars of Peace | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

"Wives Never Know" is the most pleasantly absurd comedy that the Ruggles-Boland combination has yet produced. In it, Mr. Ruggles is determined to be as wicked as possible so as to satisfy his wife, who has made up her mind that she is losing something from life. This all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

Hauling out the other Grecian mask, the University gives "Godfrey" a very gium companion by the name of "A Son Comes Home." It is mildly interesting to see Wallace Ford, a reporter, catch the villain of the piece, after having summed up the case as a matter of writing to...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

As president of the Association's Zoology Section, Dr. Huxley delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: BAAS | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile calm professionals of the British Admiralty and Foreign Office, without even bothering vacationing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, applied quiet screws to Madrid. Although His Majesty's Government have always been able to interpret the laws of blockade to give the Royal Navy freedom of action, they last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Long Live Dynamite! | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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