Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only due to the influence of myself and other Egyptian leaders that these riots against the British did not break out long ago. Britain has suffocated us, made us mere servants. We hoped that she would give us a more liberal constitution but now Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Foreign Secretary, with his Guildhall Speech saying that 'England and Egypt are irrevocably bound together by history and geography,' has revealed her real intentions. There is nothing to do but fight...
...their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert organization, she claims. It is led by the only woman conductor who has ever kept a troupe of men completely submissive...
With Ben Hallowell out for a few days because of an injured hand, and with the members of the squad who are breaking fall training restricted to a few turns about the rink, Joe Stubbs put the remaining players through what may be regarded as a mere stiff conditioning scrimmage, as far as any indications of future team lineup are concerned...
...most eloquent passages in The Crisis of the Middle Class are those in which the author pictures the present plight of the U. S. middle class. "Large numbers of small producers, storekeepers and independent professionals are always killed off by depression. But mere assassination now becomes massacre. In only three years of the depression, from 1930 to 1932, 578,000 independent enterprisers in industry, trade and the professions, were driven out of business: one out of six. The massacre is still on; the survivors tremble." Lewis Corey sets the low point of unemployment among salaried employes...
Perhaps this philosophy has something in it for those who can afford a few years of mere ripening in an intellectual environment. Undoubtedly our sort of education outshines the Anioch kind when it comes to producing Professors and Literary people...