Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relativity), Novelist Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Chancellor of Germany Hermann Miiller, Chairman Theodor Leipart of the associated German trades unions-the manifesto read: "After an epoch in which the victor states [in the War] . . . sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development...
...prove boomerangs. Dr. Schacht has indeed acted strangely in receiving Allied reductions so coldly, and precipitating the present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery could work...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief was quite forgotten...
...slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...