Word: fated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time this session the Supreme Court (which adjourns for the season June 1) this week pronounced the fate of a major New Deal law. Expecting a decision on the Social Security Act, Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal...
...thought it best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
...Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content: as if perhaps they are conscious that here in the shade of one who loved beauty so well they are happy to pass their watery existence or be sold, as Fate ordains...
...sense the Unknown is not Fate or a Divine Providence or the hand of God. It is the mind of man, struggling against odds sometimes insuperable to find out about the world in which we live and move and have our beings. The Hindenburg was just such a struggle; it was once a mere figment of the imagination of men, men of prophetic soul, dreaming on things to come. Its flight was just as much of a victory as any adventure that enlarges the horizons of men and its fall more clamitous than any academic disaster, since it proved...
...recognize their obligations to society and will fulfill them as men, not as children. They can riot if they choose, but their own rioting sooner or later will be turned against them. They may have fun now at public expense if they will. But it is fun that tempts fate...