Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always have difficulty trying to comprehend what $14,000,000,000 or even $3,500,000,000 really is. But I know that even $3,500,000,000 would buy me 90,000,000 suits of clothes.* At least that is about one suit for every mile between the earth...
...Française felt the danger of provoking an internal French crisis by taking steps against Italian Fascism to be so acute that a dozen of them manifestoed: "It is with stupefaction that we see the [British] people whose vast colonial empire includes one-fifth of the Earth appearing in opposition to young Italy's justifiable enterprise. . . . The League of Nations must not commit the folly of dealing with a civilized nation [Italy] and a barbarous nation [Ethiopia] on the same footing. . . . The risk must not be run of plunging the nations of the West into a European...
...philosophy and New Testament Greek lagged behind the advances of early 17th century continental thought and science. Latin, still Harvard's official language, was not taught. It was merely assumed and commonly used. Scholastic disputations were still in vogue; and in the science of mid 17th Century Massachusetts the earth was still the center of the universe (as was Boston State House in the mid-roth...
Fine Arts la makes a start in the direction of teaching true appreciation. No if other courses could bring this appreciation down to earth, so that it meant something in the surroundings of graduates not in museums only, but in their homes and clubs and offices as well, the expensive Museum and Department would justify themselves completely. Collecting as a natural and desirable path through which to lead students to this kind of interest and appreciation...
...unevenness of his poetic gift and of his fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...