Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Hitler arrived physically exhausted from having returned Nazi salutes all morning. Nevertheless the Realmleader's weariness snapped off, his magnetism on when one of the correspondents mentioned "Marxism." Grey eyes blazing and harsh voice hammering out the words in a violent staccato, Adolf Hitler roared: "When I think that the metropolis which is trying to dominate Europe is Moscow-Moscow, Ha! Ha! Moscow of all cities-what a shame! How grotesque! The last city with a right to hegemony over cultivated nations is Moscow. If it were a Capital with traditions in a civilized country! But Moscow...
...staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog, the accounts of Gorbols' uncivilized ways, with Long interspersing pompous, horrified comments as the story unwinds...
...Oxford colleges, an eminent scholar and educational reformer, saw no evidence that the university tradition had ever taken root in the United States. "America has no universities as we understand the term" he wrote, "the institutions so called being merely places for granting titular degrees." Taken literally this harsh judgment is undoubtedly false, and yet I venture to think that it is not a gross exaggeration of the situation which then existed. The new spirit moving within the educational institutions of this country had not become evident to those outside the academic walls. Another decade was to pass before...
These are harsh words, stranger, and as a member of this despised craft I write to enlighten Mr. Griffith as to what Minnesota editors are really like...
...tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established in the free markets of the world - a harsh method, perhaps, but the only one that works. . . . Our present cotton policy means the complete loss within a comparatively short time of our export markets for cotton." Foreign cotton acreage increases and declines in a remarkably direct proportion to the U. S. price. Of late, foreign cotton production has been...