Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity has returned. . . . All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower. Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor...
...academic year approaches, the University might well begin plans for ameliorating conditions in the Department of Music. While the faculty in music is one of the finest gathered under any one roof, its potentialities are seriously hampered by an ominous shortage of funds. From this main and crippling evil arise numerous and sundry irregularities making the teaching of music at Harvard laboured and uncertain...
...trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken with a voice of authority that would have been difficult to deny. When the shepherd of the Catholic diocese of New York in the person of Cardinal Hayes lashes out in the attack, rash indeed would be the parishioner who opposed...
Dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives who approve wholeheartedly of Britain's gigantic rearmament scheme accepted the new tax as a necessary evil, other Conservatives feared it would cause dangerous discontent, would sap industrial vitality. Declared Sir Robert Stevenson Home. Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922: "I have talked with many people and there are great perturbations. Unless these are abated in some way I fear some check upon the enterprise of the country." British Radicals, though strongly opposed to rearmament, were delighted that the 1937 Budget hits those with most money, tagged it the "Soak...
...spirit of Humor is not entirely dead in the Yard. One daring fellow last evening placed his pal's derby on the pavement and full of evil glee hid himself behind a tree. Soon a nice, bespectacled, becaned, bespatted gentleman came along, picked up the hat and returned to the prankster who showed the polite gratitude the occasion deserved. Having replaced the headgear, the daring fellow turned to light a cigarette. On looking again a moment later the hat had disappeared. And that ended that for another year...