Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer valid that part of the Treaty of Versailles which, as not many non-Europeans still remember, vests control of all the principal German rivers in the hands of International Commissions. By tearing up this page of the tattered Treaty, Herr Hitler did nothing of immediate practical effect but Central European countries like Czechoslovakia, much of whose goods passes over German rivers, took Der Führer's move as an act of derisive menace corresponding exactly to cocking a snook...
...almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were...
Except for the wooden character of its central figure, The Chronicle of Aaron Kane contains all the ingredients of a racy historical romance. The work of a portrait painter whose first novel, South, was published last year, it is illustrated with fine handsome color reproductions of Frederick Wight's Cape Cod portraits, runs to 559 well-filled pages. But for readers these graces will not compensate for the lack of any human rattle and recklessness in hard-pressed Aaron Kane. Heroes and heroines of historical romance may be as incredible as Anthony Adverse or as absurd as Scarlett...
...custom prevailed for examinations to be filed by the college, in order to permit reference to the papers in cases of doubt in awarding degrees, and to insure against mistakes in grading. Recently this practice has become something of a dead letter, as there is no longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind which teachers...
...Buchman, who in his more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...