Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free Lances v. Professionals. All these estimates of the quality of Europe's military machines are subject to debate. In the debate there are in general two sides. Free-lance authorities such as bulky, unruffled Major Eliot, earnest, deep-eyed Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times...
...living, functioning institution," i. e., where democracy functions as in the past); e) that the New Deal is incipient Fascism (she sees dictators in every closet); f) that government should be decentralized (her first seven years in small towns were happy); g) that "the educated female is, in general, dewomanized" (but not Dorothy Thompson...
...injustice and disorder of our times comes from the fact that individuals and groups have gratified their appetites by instruments of political power. . . . I do not think . . . that this country would produce a higher general level of physical and economic well being if it were governed by trade unions monopolizing the political power, than it is when governed by the owning classes monopolizing political power...
...thousand Hi-Y boys (junior members of the Y. M. C. A.) gathered round a platform in the Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair. In their centre, a torch in his hand and a pile of wood at his feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots...
Throughout the world, on the same night this week, Y. M. C. A.s sponsored similar fire rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...