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Word: wickedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weapon-Making | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Wicked old women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Georgia's Perfect Case | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

McLean v. The Record. Rich and social is Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bootlegged Kashmiri | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

A waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Bars Hoisted | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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