Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified wall. Next morning a faint smell of new plaster was the lobby's only clue to the night's deed...
...basis of their political connections." The test of Harvard's ability to procure creative scholars may be considered to lie in its policy toward the remaining thousand and odd German exiles; among them there must be some outstanding brilliants. To advance learning the Officers may well remember that "The deed is all, and nothing the report...
...earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien. In taking charge of the nation's greatest city, Mayor LaGuardia promised a mighty program of reforms ranging from slum eradication...
Scientist Compton and his colleagues are content that the facts they are amassing about "nature's laws" serve as a key to this world and possibly the next. In deed many persons believe that science, complete in itself, has effectively displaced God. At such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions...
...those senseless legends": the legend that Van der Lubbe was the queer tool of queer Nazis who used and helped him to set the fire; the legend that Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, conceived the idea of firing the Reichstag, blaming Communists for the deed and using it as the excuse for Chancellor Hitler's suppression of the Communist, Socialist and other German parties; the legend that Nazi firebugs escaped down the underground passage connecting the Reichstag with the official residence of General Göring, leaving Van der Lubbe to wave his burning...