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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sedan started up with a jerk, shot down Wolf Road. The taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Empty Trap | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...backed Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency in 1912. He backed Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 and James Middleton Cox in 1920. He backed Hiram Johnson for the Presidency in 1924. In 1928 he voted vainly for Al Smith. Nominally a Republican, he liked to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. In 1932 for the first time, Lone Wolf Ickes picked

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Billions for Building | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...Albany Federal Judge Frank Cooper and the local Protestant Episcopal Laymen's Association stormed at Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry because he insists upon attending a solemn high mass at an Anglo-Catholic Congress in Philadelphia next October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglican Revival | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Oblique evangelism is an attitude which many a devout Christian cannot stomach. He cannot picture Paul sidling into a school, hospital or household. Dr. James De Wolf Perry, presiding bishop of the Episcopalians, went to Japan and China at his own expense to see personally if his missionaries there were carrying on like that. Three weeks ago he returned, convinced that they still put their religious teachings above social welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: China Missions | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...evangelism division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young's list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others'Time Waste of One's Time Drinking Gambling Time

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin-Board | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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