Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
...rule the earth unless the democracies fight to combat it. History has never shown that through destruction comes enlightenment. There are those who think it morally wrong for England to back down on her promises, who think it wrong for Germany to grab territory and peoples that do not belong to her. Undoubtedly, these, like so many acts of all countries, should not take place. But in a given situation a country like England must do what is most expedient and reasonable to prevent from doing what is more unmoral: take a positive part in the destruction...
...beginning of the 20th century, Miss Marie Corelli, with the financial support of Edward Morris, Chicago millionaire, purchased the House and completely restored it to its 16th century aspect. Miss Corelli was convinced that the structure should belong to the University; she wrote to Morris, "You may call it a romantic notion perhaps, but I should like to think that the house of John Harvard's mother was a link with John Harvard's university, and a sign of friendship between the two nations...
...After German territory has gone to Germany, and each of the other terrorized peoples has decided where it wants to belong, Germany is even ready to guarantee the frontiers of the remaining Czech State. . . . When Mr. Chamberlain asked me to agree to have plebiscites not in all parts of Czechoslovakia but only in the German districts I GAVE IN ! I also agreed to a German-Czech commission to supervise the plebiscite. ... I would also have accepted international police control! It was all only the practical realization of what Benes had already promised...
...read with interest the many letters pro and con on the New Deal I have since wondered how many readers are familiar with a quotation attributed by Elbert Hubbard* to Abraham Lincoln: "Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product...