Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hooker-White-Atterbury bid. Elon H. Hooker, owner of an electro-chemical company at Niagara Falls, built two of the Muscle Shoals units during the War. J. G. White is a great chemical manufacturer. Atterbury, famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway car construction, cheapen transportation, provide stocks of metal?discovered by the Germans in the World War? for airplanes...
...labels. Because a man is a Socialist he is not shunned by society. When socialism can count among its adherents such figures as Anatole France, H. G. Wells, . B. Shaw and d'Annunzio, English people of all parties realize that a Labor Government is not going to mean the collapse of all England, and they whish Mr. MacDonald luck in his effort to do a good job, no matter how skeptical they may be of his success...
...that it will mean anything, once we get it. The College generally will probably show as little interest in the future as it has in the past: the audiences that will turn out to listen to Mr. Debs or Mr. Nearing will be as curious and as immune to permanent radical influence as the crowd that greeted "Red" Doran in 1921. Mr. Lamont seems to forget that this is not a girls' school; that there is here no great body of persons who are emotionally starved and lacking in attachment to material interests; that there are so many outlets...
Meanwhile, War Lord Léon Trotsky raged in Moscow. "We will never agree that the Bessarabian workmen and peasants shall remain under the iron heel of the Rumanian nobles. We will not make war and we will strive to avoid it by all means. This, however, does not mean that we agree to the present situation. The Soviet Government will use all its power to liquidate the conflict peacefully. If its efforts are unsuccessful, however, this will be due to a desire on the part of the other side to aggravate the situation...
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