Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulwark of Democracy." Whatever the fate of Finland, Scandinavia proper remained a prosperous, progressive and almost defenseless "Bulwark of Democracy," much better worth defending than were Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland...
...which is to decide whether force is to be the sole arbiter in international affairs ; whether international instruments solemnly and freely entered into are to be modified, not by negotiation, but by mere unilateral repudiation; whether there is to be any faith in future in written contracts; whether the fate of a great nation and the peace of the world is to rest in the future in the hands of one man; whether small nations are to have any rights against the pretentions of States more powerful than themselves ; in a word, whether government of the people, by the people...
...FATE OF MAN - H. G. Wells -Alliance...
...write books with titles like The Fate of Man has been the fate of Herbert George Wells, one of the chief planetary and interplanetary influences of his era. When Wells's worlds are too much with them, modern critics are inclined to forget that Joseph Conrad admired his prose, that T. S. Eliot esteemed his criticism, and that the imagination he brought to popularizing science was a vigorous and useful article...
What about "swing"? This is a question which musicians are repeatedly asked to comment upon. The answer--what the fate of "swing" itself will be and whether or not it will become the folk music of America--will be decided by time alone, but it is certain that the impression which the various forms of jazz have made on modern art-music will perpetuate its distinctive rhythmic and melodic types as important parts of the serious musical idiom of our time...