Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a juncture. He spoke of the "incalculable" consequences of rupturing the "fabric of peace." He disavowed for the U. S. any "mesh of hatred." He reminded his addressees of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, etc. Said he: "The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe...
...digging 1,000 miles of brick-lined tunnels at a depth of 60 feet in which the entire metropolitan population of 8,000,000 could be sheltered. Estimated cost: $2,000,000,000. The professor, while noting that many Britons have told him they would rather die than live thus under conditions which would make them part-time moles, resolutely insisted that Spain has proved the fallacy of attempting to "evacuate and diffuse" the populations of great cities to "safer regions...
...running toward a medium-sized bomb when it burst. My mouth was open and the shock was so violent that I was unable to breathe for some seconds, and indeed thought that my throat had been torn away, and that I had only another half-minute or so to live. I did not notice that I had been wounded until I felt that my throat was intact, and managed to start breathing again...
...that will solve all their difficulties -lead to scenes of indescribable confusion. The double room which Groucho stubbornly regards as his castle becomes a shambles on which the most effective comment is entirely wordless: when Harpo undertakes to relieve his partner's hunger pangs by bringing in a live turkey he has won at a raffle, the turkey takes one look at its surroundings and flies out of the window...
Favorite subject of progressive educators is social studies-how and why people live and work together. Modern schools start teaching this subject early, explaining it to moppets by describing a simple society like that of Eskimos. Centerville, a textbook published last week,* brings social studies closer to U. S. children by analyzing a simple society in the Middle West's corn belt. For nine-year-olds in the third grade, Centerville is a story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young...