Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the...
Omar Khayyam, whose pleasantly fatalistic Rubaiyat was a campus favorite in the '90's, was now the best-selling poet at Smith College. The local bookshop reported further that T. S. Eliot (see Col. 3) was way down in fourth place: he trailed Elizabeth Browning and Kahlil Gibran...
Two "Fine Professions." When the Rev. Jesse Pindell Peirce came to the First Congregational Church of Elgin, Ill., writes Randall, he gave each member of his congregation a "get-acquainted statement" which included a request that for funerals "the casket be not opened in the church if the service is...
But remembering the great strike of 1946, unions approached management in the latter half of 1947 with a sweet reasonableness that was further sugared by the Taft-Hartley Act. Management was reasonable also; it granted wage boosts, then raised prices to absorb them.
In this particular speech, however, the President presented a picture of a country materially so well off that it would be difficult for anyone to become excited about the need for further social reforms. He buried unpleasant facts beneath a barrage of optimism.