Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing the two-price system by which farm surpluses will be distributed to undernourished Americans, Secretary Wallace has produced a plan in which farmers are no longer the main beneficiaries. Timed to forestall the mounting criticism of the AAA, the program presents a poser for die-hard critics, for it includes the good points of every sound program suggested in recent years...
...difficult for me to express my gratitude to you for having cast me in the role of Alice in this Wonderland, but certainly I no longer doubt the existence of Americans-even in our land of planned scarcities-since, through your generosity, I met Robert B. Snowdcn Jr. here on his Arkansas plantation...
...name University City," says a bulletin issued by the Society, "has been unanimously selected." The society claims, numerous advantages accruing to the University by such a split, such as school children no longer using the Yard and cutting off traffic on the Larz Anderson Bridge...
...anything" it might turn toward "developing graduates who are a pleasant, helpful part of life in a world where modern communication and transportation have broken down geographical boundaries to a point of distraction, with the resultant effort turning back to the centripetal, toward a homogeneity and congeniality, and no longer centrifugal toward ascendency and exceptionalism...
...lost his job because he marked the cards. (At this point the Monte Carlo countess picks him up, suggests that now, since he is elderly and poor, the narrator might wish to become her accomplice in a little genteel safecracking. "Countess," says the narrator, "confide in me no longer. My new calling protects me from all temptation. I am a private detective.") Written, adapted, directed, spoken and in large part acted by Paris' famed Sacha Guitry, told with no other sound but the forlornly witty monotone of the narrator, The Story of a Cheat is a neat, simple...