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Word: honestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great things of truth and life cannot be measured by walls and towers, square miles and boulevards, throngs of men and women or thunderous salutes from artillery. Not the place, or the grandeur, but the honest, open heart of those who will receive Him, can mark the birth and the rule of this redeeming Savior, God's gift to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

This loyalty procedure cannot even effectively screen out potential traitors: an agent of a "Communist, Facist, or totalitarian" power would lie his way through the Navy's test without compunction. An honest man, however, might be caught up because of an incident in his past, and the country thus deprived of his services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Navy | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...said the proposal was actually a plea for "honest labeling" of student groups. It would require that any organization which has discriminatory membership requirements in its constitutions must state that its purpose is to conduct activities which require such discrimination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Joins Radcliffe in Study of Girls' Role in College Organizations | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Movies produced or directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, National Velvet") are not likely to be commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of stiffness. The menacing events are pictured with such a reaching for poetic blandness that, by contrast, an energetic shot of the sheriff whipping up some scrambled eggs becomes a hardhitting, action-filled image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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