Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends in industry tell me that everything points to the gradual upturn that has been brought about by a constructive confidence built up by President Hoover. Students in the University repeat this new confidence that is felt over the country. To disrupt this feeling by an administrative change would be bound to freeze the entire financial system of the nation. Since the time of John Quincy Adams, there has been no president so tactless and as unattractive as Hoover. However, he has the ability to lay great plans and to accomplish important measures for the good of the country...
...which brings me to the point that women's entrance into competition with men will of necessity be very gradual, because of lack of equipment and lack of experience. That they do not rush in immediately when restrictions are lifted does not mean they are "just contrary...
...alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a romp in a morning bath three feet deep in suds, a relay encased in towels from maid to maid, a gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets the king of the jewel thieves (William Powell) engaged in cleaning out the store. Between the two expensive parasites love burgeons. Says...
...Gradual buying out and regulation by the high-power chain of present small Canadian stations, many of them antiquated...