Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pity the young man obliged. Where upon the pickaback hitchhiker turned into an evil jinni, clamped naked, hairy thighs around the young man's neck forever after...
...addition to these physical obstacles, numerous other evils attend costly dances. Chief of these is cut-throat competition between the Houses, apparently carried on with a fond belief in the possibility of driving some Houses out of business altogether. Another evil, directly resulting from the present ruling, is the tendency of orchestras to make their minimum the House's maximum and hold out for a higher figure than they would ordinarily demand...
...revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...
...remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...
...reasons: 1) dislike for school; 2) unhappy home conditions; 3) evil associates, encountered in dance halls, skating rinks, "cellar" clubs; 4) delusions of persecution; 5) illusions fostered by cheap novels, movies, fan magazines; 6) clashing of new and old world customs in families of foreign parentage; 7) misplaced confidence, usually in trifling men; 8) parental objection to marriage; 9) incorrigibility...