Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of affairs as described by Brailsford is a decided contrast to the claims of the government, that the pound has the same value in goods as it had in 1929. Whether or not he is correct in his estimate of conditions, retrenchment is not the ideal remedy for an economic depression that has lasted so long. Sane economy requires a policy of controlled inflation to keep the buying power of money constant. An example of this may be seen in the agricultural actions of this country where grain prices have taken a disastrous drop while mortgages have remained...
...Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1½% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, Republican insurgent, telling its electorate that President Hoover...
...thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before his steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon had offered to renew the Bennett Trophy...
...than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main points, and what he says in the rest of the book illustrates, but does not add to it. The occasional obiter dicta on other poets, by way of contrast and comparison, and on poetry in general, are particularly felicitous, and rather more interesting than the central text. In style the essays have the precision and moderation characteristic of Mr. Eliot's prose, though now and then, (as in the statement that to Dryden "as much as to any individual...
...change that has come about that he emphasizes. The unevenness of two stones in the Prince de Guermantes courtyard, for instance, brings back to him the whole atmosphere of Venice, where he had stopped on stones of the same unevenness, and of his early years. In contrast to these reminiscences are the facts of the present. Mme. Verdurin has become the Princess de Guermantes, Gilberte is fat and has a daughter grown up, Bloch is in society, and the Duchess de Guermantes is completely...