Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prices: "Prices are no longer determined by the law of supply & demand in many basic industries. There is no way on earth to regulate the economic oligarchy of autocratic, self-constituted and self- perpetuating groups...
...people can witness these blood curdling photos by Norman Alley without realizing immediately that the yellow scourge of the Japanese must be wiped off the earth. As commentator Graham McNamee so succinctly puts it, it was a savage affront to American prestige and to rights fully protected by international law and definite treaties. And so on and so on far, far into the night...
...bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet in the cold earth...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...
Tale of Bali escapes the lush romanticism of most South Sea island romances, will remind most readers of The Good Earth. Its central character is a good-natured, lusty young peasant named Pak, who is superstitious about religious matters but a resourceful realist about women, cockfights and politics...