Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 50% of the U. S. citizenry exercises its suffrage privilege. Even in the presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...reach any of these organs the surgeon must cut through the peritoneum, a closed sack within the hollow of the abdomen. The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place. The peritonitis which results is exceedingly hard to cure. A high percentage of peritonitis cases die, and many of the remainder suffer lifelong pain and debility from adhesions. Because of the difficulty of coping with this form of infection all surgeons cock hopeful ears toward any serious colleague who promises them a preventive of peritonitis...
...lives and destinies of untold millions of people, and have been the controlling influence in history for nearly 2000 years. Why? Because behind his simple words throbbed the power of a unique, unconquerable, divine spirit. Behind the veil of utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When I and weak, then am I strong." This ideal changed slaves into masters, cowards, and weaklings into heroes, bad men into saints and martyrs. It can and will transform the world again. Charles Hooper...
Among the obvious advantages to be secured from such a plan are the closer contacts afforded to men denied the opportunities for these at the present time and the relatively low charges for board they could secure in this way. The ideal solution for graduate students, of course, would be the maintenance of a Graduate House, but for the present this plan is probably too expensive...
...green Bordeaux mixture from their smocks and thanked le bon Dieu that what showed every prospect of being the greatest vintage since unforgettable 1893 had come to an end. Chemists and agricultural experts bore them out. All over France, in the Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, weather has been ideal for the vine this summer. There was little hail, and the drought that burned up wheat crops only made deep-rooted grapes the sweeter. Analyses of the green wine have already sent prices soaring, but production all over Europe will be huge. Bordeaux expects to produce 500,000,000 litres...