Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reasons that Americans will have for being thankful on Thanksgiving Day, 1935 (according to Presidential proclamation ): 1) "More and more of our people understand and seek the greater good of the greater number." 2) "Selfish purpose of personal gain at, our neighbor's loss, less and less asserts itself." 3) "Peace at home is strengthened by a growing willingness to common counsel." 4) "Our peace with other nations continues through recognition of our own peaceful purpose...
...make him or her a same and careful driver, but we do feel, and we know from actual experience, that persons signing this pledge will stop and think, whereas before they might have plunged recklessly onward. If their stopping and thinking saves one life and the sorrow which the loss of that person will cause in his immediate family, the campaign has been successful...
...beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow and his old lawyer, Senator Henry Clay, were trying to get a bill through Congress to indemnify her for the loss of the mansion. Mrs. Blennerhassett died before any action was taken. During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers used the brushy island and the shelter of its huge old sycamores for a refuge. After that it was divided into small farms. In the 20th Century bootleggers made...
...realize that they were psychologically incapable of comprehending the meaning of complex religious rites. Yet the technique of administration constantly improved, until by 1697 an unarmed priest could make peace with a powerful tribe in Central America, bringing 80,000 under the rule of Spain almost without loss of life. In some respects the priest's diplomatic problem was almost as great as the one Cortes settled with fire and sword. He was compelled to deal with a native king whose subjects wanted war and with Spanish soldiers who were no more pacific, succeeded by relying on tact, patience...
...weight, the Harvard line averages one pound less of wildcat than the Eli hopes, but the loss is counteracted by a five-pound advantage in the backfield. Yale, however, boasts the outstanding individual phenomenon, a 218-pound tackle who can do the 100 in ten flat...