Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
...Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
...viewpoint, she surely is, for she cultivates vast areas of political soil plowed and sowed by her husband. Yet in saying, "I have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman show in herself, requiring the full-time services of three able assistants to stage everything she feels she must...
...cause: a cow, which had leaped from a cattle car as the freight backed into a siding, fell beneath the wheels, derailed two cars in the path of the express...
...tons of ore a year required by Canada's iron & steel industry are imported from Newfoundland and the U. S. It was therefore news last week when the Northern Miner (Toronto) reported that Canadian iron would soon be coming up from a big ore body beneath M-shaped Steep Rock Lake, located about 100 miles north of Minnesota's great Mesaba Range...