Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modernism," states Mr. Craig, "may be described as the literary expression . . . of dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
...real desire to specialize in any one field, and another to the general student, who desires not a specialized acquaintance with any one subject, but a general familiarity with all the knowledge the University has to offer--a generalized "culture," if you will. In the first category would belong those who intend to continue on in post-graduate work--embryonic doctors, engineers, economists, professional sociologists, potential English A instructors. For them, the existing concentration requirements are a necessity. But three years of specialization in a field which I do not intend to pursue in later life, have impressed upon...
...have the nerve to aid him - men with sympathetic understanding, men who are big enough mentally to know the difference between the trick phrases "Social Equality" and "Constitutional Rights." Congressman Blanton surely has the right to choose his friends. I hope everyone has. But public places do not belong to Mr. Blanton. We ask for no special concessions other than those due American Citizens. We were here before the Mayflower - and belong here. EDWARD PORTER Chicago...
...ladies' backs are warmed by Newfoundlanders' seals. Four-fifths of the world's fur seals belong in the U. S. Government-controlled herds which migrate yearly up the Pacific Coast to Pribilof Islands, chaperoned by Coast Guards and harried only by the harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel...
...this point London newspapers took up the story. Both the Optimist and the Jupiter belong to a Zurich firm named the Arksis Aksa Co. formed in 1933 "to foster trade with the Sultanate of Mauretania." London's Daily Mail charged that the real owner of Arksis Aksa Co. is Germany's munitions Tycoon Fritz Thyssen, longtime financial backer of Adolf Hitler. The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy...