Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they may, no strength and no artifice will ever succeed in banishing from the human life the ills and troubles which beset it. If any, there are those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe...
Bill Coleman, who in three years has traveled the traditional Harlow cycle of center to running guard to blocking back, has no overwhelming desire to return to the comparative anonymity of a lineman's life...
Bishop Manning, head of the Episcopal Church in New York City, declared in a sermon, "Our sympathies, our moral support, and whatever ever aid we can rightly give at this time must be with those who at untold cost are upholding the principles and ideals of human life in which we believe." President Seymour of Yale warned that "a defeat, complete or even partial, of the Western democracies in the present war must be regarded as a disaster of the first magnitude for this country." President Conant foresaw grim eventualities if Germany should win. "I believe that if these countries...
...trumpets have blared and the drums have rolled, publicity has poured forth in torrents and "Kiss the Boys Good-bye" has roared into town, hot off B'way and the pages of "Life." This ought to be enough to brand almost any show as anti-climactical. But "Kiss the Boys Good-bye," surprisingly enough, lives up to expectations...
...strong and lasting elements of form, rhythm, and melody from popular dances and songs. From the Paris motets of the thirteenth century to the music of our own generation we are indebted to the freshness and vitality of the dances of the people which have imparted new life to the works of serious musicians...