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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your issue of Oct. 31 is an excellent sample of what is wrong with the U.S. today. Your cover and feature article are devoted to Designer Raymond Loewy, prophet of a world of mechanized madness, instead of to Philosopher John Dewey. You are to be congratulated, however, on your excellent coverage of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Three times-by foot, subway and train -Artie Biggs, a freckle-faced eleven-year-old, had started out for Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week the call came again, loud and clear. Artie dialed the Trans World Airline counter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, told them he was going to Hollywood to make a picture and wanted a reservation. Yes, he said, the afternoon Constellation that stopped at Pittsburgh and St. Louis would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Airborne Stowaway | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Totem & Taboo | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Love That Supermarket | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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