Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary struggles. Today Williams is becoming imbued with a new liberalism. Talking in negatives is, becoming unpopular. The fight must be for the preservation of education itself. We cannot see the views of those who attack freedom of speech and thought. We cannot be tolerant of those who would destroy tolerance. We cannot refrain from fighting for the organizations, such as the C. I. O., which we consider the most effective instruments for holding down the forces which would do irreparable harm to Williams and to education as a whole. . . . --The Williams Record...
...wonderful and unexplained cures. One such is Dr. Burr Ferguson of Birmingham. Ala., who claims to cure practically every known disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile ampules) and sometimes, somehow, cure their patients...
...said his readers did not need Senator Minton to pasteurize their reading material for them. Taking a long breath he continued: "If, as in his attack on Rural Progress, an officer of Government can use the prestige of his position to malign, misinterpret, and deliberately undertake to cripple or destroy a magazine because not every line in it has agreed entirely with that officer, then every newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing yes-man, can be put at the mercy of Government officials...
They have blindly ignored the fact that increased wages mean increased costs of production. The only thing which can really revive business from a depression is profits, and higher costs destroy profits. Thus wage hikes are an effective barricade in the road of prosperity. At the present time we have the anomaly of an Administration spending $3,700,000,000 to drag business out of its doldrums and at the same time pushing it back with higher wages...
Professor Ransom does not so much defend the obscurity of modern poets as give a lucid explanation of its cause. He says that poets, once bards, patriots and men of public importance, now seem wilfully determined to destroy the prestige that their predecessors have courted for generations. If they write "pure" poetry, like Wallace Stevens, their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being...