Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great diamond-shaped area that begins around Marietta, at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...
...more than they could believe that a great idea was involved in the first panic of the crash, could U. S. citizens believe that civilization was at stake in the war. The Southern editor who wrote "Why are we puzzled? The issues of this war are very plain. It is a war of civilization against barbarism," found himself answered by torrential letters that this was Europe's, and not civilization's, war. As in the first days of the crisis that was called the crash, citizens divided between those who believed that it would soon be over...
...unknown future lay a sequence of struggles that would number the prophets and the positive among its casualties. Off in the same future lay the contributions to the productive life to be tested against the forces of destruction. And off in the same future lay the challenge of great ideas to change the mood of the people, to determine where if anywhere, lie the horizons that mark the furthest Azores of the mind and set at last the final limits ending the Pursuit of Happiness...
...Herr Hitler did not begin by talking peace. In fact for almost an hour of his 80-minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from...
Modest Negotiator. "National Socialism is not a phenomenon which has grown up in Germany with the malicious intent of thwarting League efforts at revision, but a movement which arose because for fifteen years the most natural human and social rights of a great nation had been suppressed and denied redress...