Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive and impotent public. . . . The regime was that of Parliamentarianism gone mad. . . . The extremists of the Popular Front knew well how to maintain themselves without the Cabinet. The latter was nothing more than a pliable instrument, the mere plaything of the real power...
...Administration has taken to promote a rise in prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem the flood when it threatens to overflow its appointed bounds...
Freshman have always been advised to apply for residence in those Houses which are well-equipped with tutors in we field of concentration which the appetent has chosen. This is more than a latter of mere convenience for tutorial conferences. Informal contacts at luncheon and dinner are invaluable from the tutor's and the tutee's standpoint, in that they provide a continuity that would be otherwise lacking if the man had to do tutorial work under an instructor who had no affiliations with the House. In regard to the tutorial situation, Winthrop is especially well represented in the fields...
Across the Atlantic in Washington, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers up-rose in the House to demand fuller revenge for insulted U. S. womanhood than mere "emphatic comment," Minnesota's grizzled Harold Knutson, who voted against War in 1917, replied: "I wonder whether the gentlewoman from Massachusetts speaks from personal knowledge or from propaganda coming from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown...
Thomas discusses the plea of many young teachers today that the typical English course "seeks by its choice of unsexed and devitalized themes, to divert the reader with mere trivialties . . . and situations alien to the vibrant happenings in the daily life of the normal boy or girl or high-school...