Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years before the Civil War began, Carter Glass was born in the city of Lynchburg, Va., that rises steeply from the James River at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Last week the venerable legislator, ill for the past month, propped himself up on a pillow in a Washington hotel bedroom, and with all the ardor and oratory of the Old South said his say about peace, war, Adolf Hitler, Congress, cash-&-carry, and the U. S. state of mind...
...prevalence of this potential nihilistic state of mind is most clearly indicated by our surges of emotionalism since 1915. Also Americans are particularly bloodthirsty. Did we not set the world pace for blood letting in our own Civil...
Pointing to the lack of cooperation among the Cambridge welfare boards, the self-styled "next city councilor from Ward?" demanded reforms "to bring order out of the chaos in the civil service...
These contracts of the Civil Aeronautics Authority with Wiggins Airways, the University's flight operator, are all that have been holding things up for the last two weeks, Bollay declared, and as soon as they come and a schedule of training flights has been made out, the students who have passed the necessary requirements will graduate to the East Boston airport, where Wiggins has installed a fleet of 20 new Piper Cubs for the course...
...Women" deals with the fair sex in the cynical thirties, so "The Old Maid" takes its problem back into Civil War Days and the mauve decade. It is characteristic of the two periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...