Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villard, who for years has been a friendly observer of Communism, was declaring last week in The Nation: "The Kremlin is undermining everything good the Revolution sought to accomplish. . . . Madness has taken charge of the Soviets. . . . Great states fall . . . when the masses awake to the fact that justice no longer reigns among them, that murder stalks in the very halls of justice...
...life of the romantic Bostonian, John Jay Chapman, with its independence, unfulfilled promise and notes of morbidity, demonstrates Wilson's thesis: "The Americans who graduated from college in the eighties found themselves up against a world which broke most of them. . . . They could no longer play the role in the professions of a trained and public-spirited caste: the new society did not recognize them." As is usual in Wilson's writing, his most penetrating insights are incorporated into the body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize...
...Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
Like historians, the papers tell us that, Austria has no longer a name of its own, that on April tenth the "free" plebiscite will be an inevitable Nazi victory, that Italy is dubious about Germany's friendship. When these facts are scrambled together with others, the mixture, for one thing, shows that the European situation is little different from what it was before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi...
...technique was simple, according to Prosecutor Burns: The exigencies of traveling would cause the circus to abandon a large number of animals they had never owned. Without the animals they no longer had need of chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned-so were wagons, horses and railroad cars. "Bridgeport, Conn.," said Mr. Burns in a rather bitter mood, "must have resembled a jungle when the circus moved from there to new winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. in 1927. Income tax returns for that year show the abandonment of 46 elephants, 23 camels...