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Word: wretchedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

As the infantry moved into Bonus City (10:14 p. m.) gassing each wretched shack and shanty, veterans by the thousands trudged off into the night. Some carried their belongings wrapped in bundles on their backs. One drunk went lurching away bearing only a large oil lamp. A few sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

No truly civilized nation would tolerate such conditions as these. Germany and England, in a considerably worse situation, have to some extent relieved their wretched workers and controlled the employers. This nation has allowed its industrial difficulties to become so acute that a peaceable solution of them seems almost hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ARISE, YE WRETCHED" | 5/27/1932 | See Source »

Edward of Wales last week left London with high-heralded "secrecy" to visit the poor of his father's Kingdom. Previous royal visits to Britain's blighted areas have been enthusiastically praised by the Press on the theory that something important might come of them. Nothing did. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wales & Patrick | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

The Miracle Man (Paramount) was a vast success when acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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