Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in Africa. For three-and-a-half hours and 26 pages in the Congressional Record, he expanded on a way to make this possible: let the Government establish a Greater Liberia for "repatriated" blacks...
...support of his bill to create Greater Liberia, Senator Bilbo quoted Thomas Jefferson, founder-hero of the Democratic Party. He declared that 20,000 mulattoes annually "cross the color line" (pass for whites). If miscegenation goes on unchecked, he predicted the U. S. will become a land of decadent mongrels, "a yellow race yet to come...
...present Greater German Reich contains no territory which was not, from the earliest times, a part of this Reich, which was not bound up with it or subject to its sovereignty...
...first to report the Anglo-Italian Treaty in 1938, first to announce Anthony Eden's resignation last year. So rarely do prophecies turn out right that these triumphs overshadowed notable Augur misses. But in 1932 he observed that Poland would soon achieve a position of power in Europe greater than Italy's; after the first anti-Semitic outbreaks under the Nazis he considered it likely that Hitler would try to make peace with the people he has wronged." He also prophesied that Hitler would drop his demands for colonies in return for a free hand in Central Europe...
...music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste of the greater part of the public which supports him. In the case of an amateur or professional who performs for the benefit of a small, select audience, the problem is much simpler. Here the planner is under no obligation to a public and is perfectly free--within the limits set by the ability...