Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Federal Committee on Legislation for Birth Control has any commercial interest in any contraceptives, nor have we any association with any company that manufactures or sells a contraceptive. . . . Furthermore, Mrs. Sanger refused an offer of $250,000 for five minute radio talks on any subject she chose from a company manufacturing an antiseptic. Why didn't you report a fact like that? It came out at the hearing. DOROTHY H. DICK Secretary Federal Committee on Legislation for Birth Control New York City
...down-deepmost soul that he has a personality, and likewise--or therefore--a message for humanity. That personality is composed of seven children, a penchant for beefsteak and good liquor, and the capacity to take pleasure in reading. One regrets, when reading "After the Great Companions," that he chose to discourse on literature and progeny rather than on food and drink; but no doubt he will sooner or later favor the world with a volume entitled "How to Raise Seven Children on Beefsteak and Corn Liquor, or Short Walks "Twixt Distillery and Abattoir...
...Though the orators at the meeting of the Third International and again at the All-Union Congress of the Party aired the customary phrases concerning the world revolution and the deepening contradictions of the capitalist order, the government either was not fully aware of the crisis in Austria or chose to disregard it in favor of the Japanese threat on the eastern border. There were two predominant, reasons for this negligence, I think; one is the obvious and much-publicized Russian nationalism which is afraid to jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal affairs...
...Author. Oswald Spengler chose Germany (Blankenburg im Harz) as his birthplace, history as his province. He studied mathematics, philosophy, art and history in Munich and Berlin, wrote his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, then subsided into the anonymity of a pedagog. When the first version of Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was finished, he could find no German publisher, brought it out in Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines...
...University has explained its position on the question of hiring exiled German professors, recommended by the Emergency Committee on the basis of principle. Harvard did not wish to be committed to employing men whom others chose...