Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that three Italian army columns had crossed Ethiopia's far northern border reached Addis Ababa last week in a crashing thunderstorm. That night little Emperor Haile Selassie talked long with his white advisers, prayed longer to his dusky Coptic God. At dawn the lean Semitic Negroes began moving down out of the eucalyptus forests toward the palace. The guards let 5,000 into the palace grounds. While the Emperor watched the mob from a window, his Chancellor Haile Wolde-Roufe read out in the Amharic tongue Ethiopia's first effort at a modern mobilization order...
...which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine and an Italian spirit that can stand much privation...
...standards of value have changed since the Victorian are, the utility and structure guild replies. We so longer build colleges, or anything else, in the "General Grant" Goths of the dark and stuffy interiors, then fronts tortured with ornament...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
...Communist was the complete freedom with which a Russian used to be able to get divorced with no questions asked, merely stopping in at a State bureau which mailed a post card to the no-longer-desired mate. Recently the State bureaus began firing sharp questions at every divorce applicant (TIME, July 15). Last week the ''post-card divorce" was abruptly abolished in Russia proper with the six lesser Soviet republics expected to fall into line. The three-ruble ($2.60) divorce fee will soon be upped to 100 rubles ($86.67). Hereafter no Soviet divorce will be granted until...