Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three irregularity cycles, one of a lunar month, one of eleven to 13 months, the third varying over a long period up to 70 years. According to first reports from Canton Island, Dr. Robertson's time predictions for that spot, allowing for the "X factor," had hit the actual eclipse times on the nose...
This easing and broadening of installment credit has already brought cries of alarm from the National Retail Dry Goods Association, will undoubtedly call for further alarm when the Association meets for a mid-year convention in Chicago this week. So far N.R.D.G.A. does not consider the actual volume of installment credit ominous. Installment sales last year probably ran about $4,500,000,000, may run as high as $5,000,000,000 this year- still considerably under the 1929 total...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...
...tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing to the mob coupled with the actual use of force have been successful, an approach to homogeneity has been attained. Here is one world, and woe to the man who does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia...
...situation today is not dissimilar. First it was Russia,--and the repercussions of the Bolshevik revolution are with us yet. Then it was the failure of parliamentary government to maintain itself in Italy. Next came the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany, and now we witness actual warfare with all its barbarism in Spain. Finally we have seen the hopes of peace through collective security appear to fade and now the threat of rearmament hangs over all of Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension...