Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents of the capitalistic system understand that a balance between saving, investment, and buying is essential to that system's success, and that these three are getting more and more out of gear. They look forward with keen delight to a higher boom and a final collapse...
...time" football which have incurred the worry of men like Messrs. Conant and Bingham. Neither they nor the majority of Harvard undergraduates want to relegate football to an inconsequential position. Excellent coaching, training, and facilities are the prime requisite of any sport. Nor do they want to impair the delight and interest in football contests, such as the one today...
...time have opponents of Roosevelt been weaker than when they have attempted to arouse popular emotions by an appeal to the sanctity of the Constitution. Throughout the past four years blatant cartoonists have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...
...little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with this gadget...
Jasper Ammen is a singularly unpleasant person to read about. Some will find it hard to sympathize with him, others will find delight in a sublimation of their "Superman" tendencies. To anyone Conrad Aiken's portrait is a fearfully real...