Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers now over 50, the name of Leopold II of Belgium on the cover of a book will connote one thing-the Congo atrocities. They will remember appalling stories of hacked-off hands, of burned women, of forced labor. They will recall, perhaps dimly across the abyss of the World War, that the Belgian king who preceded Albert made millions out of "red rubber" and they may recollect that of a population of some 20,000,000 blacks living along the Congo when Henry M. Stanley first traced the river from source to sea only 10,000,000 were left...
...sufficient breadth, serve as an antidote to intolerance. Most valuable, however, is the work of the few professors who, being scientists, have a background of wide culture or who, as humanists, realize the value of precision. Such men, by their lectures and writings, not only bridge the abyss but narrow it. The University would be fulfilling its duties well by encouraging them at every opportunity...
...oppressive, so dully deafening become the throbbing pulsations that he feels as though he must collapse into himself and plunge down the abyss in which burns that unattainable, dazzling blue light. But then, in a tone of limitless melancholy, like the meaning of the wind on a rainy autumn night around the eaves of a high garret, a far-off church clock resounds. Again the throbbing abruptly falters, again the imaginary pressure is relieved, and then once more the night resumes its monotonous chant...
...report; but you have in some aspects missed the point in your appreciation of what the President intends to do. President Conant has masterfully combined the ideals of former President Lowell with those of so-called Progressive Education, and by so doing he has saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals...
Between Pope Pius XI and Dictator Stalin I yawns an abyss on a major issue of fact: Did millions of Soviet citizens starve in 1933 or did they get enough...