Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still remains to be done in soil conservation efforts. Here is a new approach in campaign methods, it appears: education and good manners in place of muckraking and maligning the opposing candidate...
...work in a typical district under the direction of a typical manager. I take my hat off to him. . . . In no other job could I have such independence and, at the same time, done as well financially and have had such mental satisfaction which after all is that which counts most...
Lecturing at Oxford on Jews who have been forced to flee from Germany, Sir John Simpson announced that thus far in Britain these refugees have done so well that they have given jobs to 25,000 Englishmen. Sir John blandly concluded a warm plea for more refugees saying, "Thus far the number of jobs they have given our people exceeds the number of refugees...
What Batsman Hutton had done, no Britisher had ever done before: in the fifth and last Test match with Australia he had scored 364 runs in one innings-and this at a time when English cricket seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for the Anglo-Australian series was 30 runs better than the record set in 1930 by Australia's famed Don Bradman. It was even better than the record for all international cricket: 336 (against New Zealand), set in 1933 by Britain's famed Wally Hammond...
...found them fully abstract, only remotely Freudian, with more depth and movement than most abstract paintings. This was because Artist Ferren has the .inventiveness to paint curving forms in space which are as interesting and satisfactory to look at as, say, a page of designs for ships' propellers, done in color...