Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story can be told? You sitting and reading this book have also a story, a history. How much of that could be told? How much do we writers dare let ourselves go in the making of portraits? How close can we keep to truth? How much do we dare try to be true historians? . . . And then, too, another danger, always the danger of the historian's imagination also thrusting in. Who has not asked himself the question...
...These have been assumed by the Berlin regime to the immense relief of municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
...French Ambassador, bold Jean Herbette, meanwhile undertook to take out of Spain a mysterious individual whom the Red guards at the Spanish frontier viewed with so much suspicion that they threatened to open fire. Cried M. Herbette from his Ambassadorial car flying the Tricolor, ''Fire if you dare, Messieurs-upon the French Ambassador!" As the Reds hesitated he dashed to safety in France...
...people did not live well enough. How can it be said that we have overproduction when so many Americans are badly fed, badly clothed and badly housed? How can it be said we have overproduction when large groups of our fellow citizens are neglected, underpaid, or unemployed? How dare we talk about overproduction when the evil effects of these conditions run beyond the tragedy of stunted lives and challenge the welfare and the honor of the nation...
...worst in 55 years, down 850,000,000 bu. from last year's harvest. *The phrase originated on the floor of the U. S. Senate in 1858 when South Carolina's James Henry Hammond challenged the economic power of the North thus: "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...