Word: looms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power to revise export quotas as world prices change. This commission will also attempt to increase the consumption of sugar in countries where it is low, particularly China. Countries joining in the agreement will have to enact laws giving their governments control over ex ports. But these problems loom slight against the original problem of getting all the sugar countries to sacrifice some of their own interests for the common cause...
Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence (TIME, Jan. 13). It was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. Last week he was still there, and some...
...been established, stories of gentlemen's agreements are given scant credence.? That the cartel and the U. S. steel industry would soon be engaged in direct competition seemed likely when the cartel recently started an export division with strategic sales offices. In South America especially did a battle loom. Yet at last week's meeting the export division was abandoned, cartel members apparently having enough trouble in settling their home problems...
...Nearly 70 years have passed since Lincoln spoke [here]. Ours is a new day and ours new problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln...
...wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold, Tairov; Cinema Directors Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP...