Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association of New York City upheld the principle of the bill but condemned its wording as "so rigid, so needlessly interfering, as to bring about a widespread crippling of the administrative process." Brookings dittoed the opinion. Everyone agreed that the measure opened up visions of an endless field day for lawyers. It passed the House twice: 1) 282-to-97, 2) 176-to-51; the Senate once...
Contending that the financial and economic phases of the discussion had already been fully presented, Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economy, purposely digressed from the main topic, and went on to a discussion "of the possibilities of an endless...
Schumpeter declared that the conception of an endless war-society was not as fanciful as it seemed, and that "war-fare might very conceivably become an integral part of society, without an economic breakdown, by means of a super-gearing of industry by force and propaganda...
...pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford. The show over, John L. Lewis clapped on his grey sombrero, lit one of his endless cigars, and lumbered home to read Shakespeare, satisfied that he was victor in his latest convention battle. Busy Sidney hurried back to his defense job. He had not exactly won the war, but he had a good chance to win the peace...
...unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times to a Brahmsian luxuriance at others; to boot, reams of discordant counterpoint and impressively dull masses of sound. The quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes--the whole thing suggestive of some mediaeval theologian spinning his scholastic cobwebs out of a decrepit, hacked-over text. It was most strongly suggestive, however, of four extremely competent musicians going through a terrific technical work...