Word: crushingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imperialistic war. Yet in the war itself, these issues fade because the outcome was never in doubt. By virtue of numbers, the French would win. But as a matter of curiosity it is interesting to watch a powerful modern nation slapping legions onto desert soil to crush a savage mosquito...
...custom-it was until 1913-that every year the Vice President gave a party for Congress. Quite a reception it was, the invited including 96 Senators, 435 Congressmen, Cabinet members and Justices of the Supreme Court, Army and Navy officers of high degree, a few hundred diplomats-a crush. But the modest Marshalls and the retiring Coolidges gave up the demonstration. This year the Daweses, with a large house and plenty of money, decided to resume it. In fact it is to take place very soon...
...opposition has been the most brutal and unjust since the copper strikes in Colorado a number of years ago. The mayor and chief of police of Garfield are both high salaried employees of the mill owners, and as such have employed every means to crush the strikers...
...policy of these few men who controlled France and Russia during the two years immediately preceding the war seems reasonably clear. They apparently saw that a general European war in which they expected to crush the members of the Triple Alliance was the only way of satisfying their ambitious, and they worked toward this goal consciously and purposely...
...century. The fund of facts in an increasing number of fields finally became so great that the educators, completely overwhelmed by it, had to turn the task of selection over to green Freshmen, who were not qualified to make wise choices. This burden of knowledge which is threatening to crush education under its weight is analogous to the structural overloading of our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our unwieldy store of knowledge...