Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force and for other nations at the same time to choose and follow the way of reason. All will have to go in one direction...
...days ago a whisper, fortunately untrue, raced round the world that armies standing over against each other in unhappy array were to be set in motion. . . . We in the Americas are no longer a far away continent to which the eddies of controversies beyond the seas could bring no interest or no harm. Instead, we in the Americas have become a consideration to every propaganda office and to every general staff beyond the seas...
...longer can the average city look to tomorrow's influx of population to lighten its responsibility for financial obligations incurred today. Nor is there much immediate prospect of skyrocketing assessed valuations to make tax levies appear smaller and debt burdens less onerous. . . . Very few municipalities with overall, net, tax-supported debts in excess of 15% of full taxable value escaped more or less serious default in the depression period. Very few whose overall debts fell below 10% became conspicuously involved in default...
...road to safety is work. War rages in Spain and the Far East. In the centre of Europe the great powers review or try out their armed forces. For their soldiers and reservists there is no longer any real limit to the duration of military service...
...horse has no means of defense these days. I do not think you would like to see your old friends wounded and suffering. . . . The saddest word is goodby. You will have many changes and you will no longer have your faithful friends. But you will maintain those glorious traditions of which we are proud...