Word: clime
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...Firestone knows whereof he speaks, for his company has experimented on rubber-growing in many a strange hot clime, particularly down in Liberia where the Firestones have a 1,000,000-acre rubber concession, 10,000 acres of which have already been cleared and planted...
Significance. Disraeli and Gladstone?both were remote. Disraeli, artist and Jew, seemed always a foreigner. Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman." One seemed to come from another clime, one from another time. They both ruled the hard-headed men of England for two generations. Both were clearly patterned in the weave, not only of England, but also of the modern world. Fortunately two of the world's greatest biographies record their lives-Lord Morley on Gladstone, Moneypenny and Buckle on Disraeli...
Which are meant in this clime...
...remained in the South, traditional submission to the status quo delayed any acute outcropping of racial ill feeling. But the World War uprooted the negro's traditional attitude toward his lot, and the exodus to the North began. Coming in even greater numbers to new homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex is cast off. Now for the first time he realizes that he is a man. In outward shows the North accords...
...flicker of controversy. Amiable ladies and gentle men have as gallantly as unsolicitedly taken the occasion to rush into print and explain exactly how they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...