Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent exposure of the armaments racket (which exposure, by the way, I think should be reprinted and broadcast over the country), also bring into broad daylight the men and methods directly responsible for the Legion's highly organized raiding of the Treasury, and so bare another national evil? You would be performing a real service-providing you too were not intimidated by the certain threats of canceled veteran subscriptions...
...required to take examinations in the Bible, Shakespeare, and the Ancient Authors. This was patently an unjustly heavy burden and in response to much pressure the Departmental chiefs consented to allow Juniors to take these examinations if they desired. This move is but a minor improvement and the chief evil still remains,--as it is still necessary to take all of these examinations within a week...
...this work were discussed in these columns last November and two remedies were suggested. The proposal that laboratory work be reduced to the amount stated in the catalogue has been declared flatly impossible by the science departments who have continued to treat the situation as an unfortunate but unavoidable evil. The second suggestion, that of adjusting course credits so that this extra work would receive due reward is the only remaining solution and merits the immediate attention of the authorities...
Betrayed by a henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...
...justification in the eyes of well-meaning Party officials, they bear concomitant risks, not simply of antagonizing the middle-classes (which can hardly be avoided), but of blinding the officials themselves to the stature of these achievements, a blindness which leads inevitably to the familiar pitfall of the "lesser evil" policy. CASTOR...