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Word: wickednesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But let us pass on. To this shame is added that of daily hearing the voice of the radio deride the courage, loyalty and dignity of the English in the forefront of the battle, who cover themselves with glory by resisting alone, after so many betrayals. To the insults of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

His return to England was perfectly timed. Byron had written the early cantos of Childe Harold. Young ladies were dreaming of giaours, Manfreds, Mazeppas, with wild eyes, black mustaches, long cloaks, wicked pasts. In Lausanne one day Trelawny read Shelley's Queen Mab. He rushed to Pisa to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childe Edward | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

An oldtimer in the tank business, but not on a big production scale, A. C. F. turned out its first twelve-ton machine on May 8-a snub-snouted monster armed with four .30-calibre machine guns, a .50-calibre machine gun for use against aircraft and a wicked-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Tanks from A. C. F. | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

> Persecution of Witnesses merely strengthens them in their belief that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Star Dust(20th Century-Fox) is a light-hearted apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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