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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First, learn what is wrong with your prospective convert-either from gossip or local suspicion. There is some sin which is obstructing his free communion with God. Accuse him of the sin of which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Personal Work | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Subscriber Parsons $2. Extract from the clipping: "During the blow a man in Pensacola opened his bedroom window and in blew a Miami Herald, printed only two hours previously, giving an account of the storm."-ED. Dead Wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Your paragraph [TIME, Sept. 27], "Last week, as everyone knows, the rain and wind gods conspired with Neptune, wiped the 'Magic City' off the map," is dead wrong. Miami was not wiped off the map by any means, and is coming to the fore now with its rebuilding operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...fail to see why we should pamper these "reds" just because it is their skins that are red. Of course their forefathers owned our country. But it is the whole principle of our inheritance tax that it is wrong for children to inherit property beyond one or two generations. As long as that is so why are we so careful to give to these red Indians what our own white children cannot get? Let's have no more "reds" of any kind in our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Straub of Munich, with good knowledge of cool München Brau, remarked: "Alcohol is the oldest pleasure poison known to man. . . . It is the taking of wrong amounts of alcohol by those whose systems are not properly adjusted which has caused all the trouble with drink since Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: German Renaissance | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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