Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat. What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide...
White politicians in 16 Southern States that lack Negro professional schools, expecting this burst dam to bring a flood of applications from Negroes for admittance to whites' schools, sputtered and fumed. None was more vehement, however, than Kentucky-born Justice James McReynolds, who wrote a dissenting opinion (Minnesota-born Justice Pierce Butler concurring). Stormed Justice McReynolds: "I presume Missouri may . . . break down the settled practice concerning separate schools and thereby, as indicated by experience, damnify both races...
...service to a university for a teacher to make himself irreplacable. And if Professor Lowes has done this, it is only for the moment. In the next ten years the English Department will know a new burst of activity, a new striving for scholarship, a new set of names to become famous. And in this Professor Lowes will see a tangible reward for his labor and the most moving tribute a teacher can receive...
Worthy of record in Europe last week were: 1) an exhibition that proved a point; 2) a burst of indignation; 3) an extraordinary stroke of intolerance...
...Because they consider that the dog has been deprived of his natural occupation, anti-city dog leaguers regularly raise a cry of cruelty. But in a new book on bringing up dogs,* Dr. James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals, burst their argument's bubble. He pointed out that dogs have become the most domesticated and civilized of animals; that unless man teaches them the tricks they seldom revert to their ancient habits in the country or out; that since dogs receive better care and more attention in the city...