Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth while to learn the English language, to enjoy in this cursed part of the world the very interesting contents of your recent article (TiME, July 24) about Mussolini & Family. Too bad that our press is forbidden to publish such articles-let me say facts-about "prominent" people; their only task is to lessen the strength of the democracies in the eyes of the masses, and to increase the prestige of the "Axis...
Lady of the Tropics (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "In the Orient," as M. Jacques Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut) has occasion to tell young Bill Carey (Robert Taylor) early in this picture, "we are less concerned with changing things than with enjoying them." A half-caste who-has made himself one of the richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which...
...human spirit. But we are so used to it that if we ever think of it at all, we think it has dropped into our laps like manna from the skies, and unless we go a little beneath the surface in our questioning, we may feel that we enjoy this freedom because we are better than other people and therefore more worthy of it. Indeed we may give an impression to the world of that complacent self-righteousness which is said to be one of our most offensive and irritating characteristics...
...Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make guilty a devoted, scholastically competent faculty and a loyal corps of students that cherish deep in their hearts the alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Declaration of independence with more ampleness and vastness than any other student body in the nation's universities...
...Within a century," Mr. Nash wrote, "New Zealand has been transformed from a virgin wilderness into a land where 1,600,000 people enjoy the amenities of modern life. Wealth has been won and is being won in rich abundance. . . . The country has proved a valuable field for British emigration and investment, a first-rate market, a dependable source of foodstuffs...