Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your comments were in italics, I see, by an experienced observer returned from Spain. Let us have more of these observations. America has been great because she grew up without the restraints which have held Europe in an abyss these many centuries...
...putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers), one of the country's ten best-dressed women (by the Fashion Academy), 100 outstanding women (by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt), Miss Kellems explained that she needs the Government's money...
...predictable Frank C. Walker, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, last week let a nationwide radio audience in on the worst-kept secret of contemporary politics: the Democratic Party's platform for 1944 will be Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not "local problems," said Frank Walker, walking gingerly around the abyss of OPA, but "unfailing loyalty to our Commander in Chief" will determine next year's election...
...real reason was different and deeper. At a moment when the French Revolution had led first to the Terror, next to Napoleon, and third to the edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was in their interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some...
...University of Kansas Professor Raymond Wheeler has in progress a vast project for measuring the rise & fall of civilization, has caught history repeating itself in cycles of 45, 90 and 510 years. He calculates that, if the pattern continues, civilization will slide into an abyss about 1960, begin a new Golden Age about...