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Word: wrongness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME was wrong, Readers Rathmann and Fuchs and the Chicago Public Library right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...only 48 hours to trump Mr. Churchill's ace. There CBS was supplied with a voice which said it belonged to Captain Herbert Schultze, commander of the U-48 which sank the Philbine. In reply to urbane Mr. Churchill this voice said: "He had apparently got my position wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Heroes & Heroics | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...spinach). It took Mrs. Waring 15 years to develop her formula. In the college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating. Eventually she made a reel showing the right and the wrong way to approach her central problem-orange juice. First scene, picturing a young mother's desperate attempt, ends with her youngster screaming, the orange juice untouched. Second scene shows a teacher whose timing is expert, ends with smiling Junior drinking it all up. In the third scene the mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Orange Juice | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...mind's ear the mayhem that a lusty soprano of the oldtime concert stage can commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you're wrong: she still has something special left for a flag finish. Here she goes. (Eyes glare.) 'Keesss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Editor Frank Cobb of the old New York World tells what Woodrow Wilson told him the night before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany: would mean that we should lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong . . . that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war-mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Tales | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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