Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Trotsky of the rise of Stalin, his own defeat: "Stalin is gifted with practicality, a strong will, and persistence in carrying out his aims. His political horizon is restricted, his theoretical equipment primitive. The fact that today he is playing first is not so much a summing-up of the man as it is of this transitional period of political backsliding in the country." Lenin, says Trotsky, never liked nor trusted Stalin, but of Trotsky he said-"There has been no better Bolshevik...
With the smoke of the recent hour examinations still lingering in the sky, and the threatening clouds of the April sessions rapidly looming up in the horizon, the present breathing space is sufficient for but a few pants before another gloomy period of reckoning and questioning arrives. Mid-Years being scarcely in the past, this formidable array of examinations lends an air of faculty surveillance that is not far removed from the preparatory school. In view of the theoretical independence of collegiate education, it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to see in what way this practice is either...
Thereafter his horizon increased with his bulk until an entire nation, rapidly becoming dominant in the world, was his arena. But rare was the June which did not find him on the Yale campus and it is through the eyes of the smaller world that the world-figure may be seen most sympathetically. Fondly, proudly, Yale followed his career...
...sympathy: from this narration the wronged husband, Vulcan, emerges the hero, and Mars is shown in an unenviable and ridiculous light. Author de Miomandre is no admirer of Mars, says some bright things about his dullness: "As soon as he saw anything the least stormy on the conversational horizon, he abruptly took the sharp, superior attitude of someone who, under no circumstances, is going...
While the squabble between Compagnie Generate Aeropostale (French) and New York Rio and Buenos Aires (U. S.) continued crackling up from South America last week (TIME, Feb. 17), ominous thunderclouds of air trouble rumbled on the transatlantic horizon. Diplomatic protests from the U. S. and Germany were being launched at the actions of France, who, by devious and somewhat obscure methods, was making a determined effort to get control of South American air lanes...