Word: difference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...
...only natural that men should differ as to the proper defensive strategy, about whether it should be continental or hemispherical or international in its planning, about how much it should concede diplomatically before it stands firm, and so on. But Defense for What reveals an attitude as intolerant as any that is about in these days of panic, the attitude that all who deviate from its program of opposing military expansion and a general inflation of preparedness industries, are enemies of democracy, or dupes of the enemies of democracy...
...need for defense, few will differ. But whereas Professor Elliott wants organized emotion, many will point out that the elimination of the hysteria attendant upon the volunteer system was one of the principal reasons for adopting conscription...
Most white folks suppose that all colored folks are low class. Not so. U. S. Negroes "differ socially among themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common, ignorant sort of niggers." It is his class, rather than his race, which determines a Negro's behavior, personality, ambitions...
Though Authors Noyes and Best differ as to how the old world will end, they are in entire agreement about the nationality of the survivors who will carry on the race. In both novels the Adam & Eve of the new world are an English university graduate and a U. S. girl...