Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although in part a concession to the dilettante, this widening of scope will now make possible a more spontaneous lecture program. No longer restricted to one topic, the Inquiry will be free to sponsor timely discussions on whatever subject may be foremost at the moment. Dogmatic purpose, as well as the tub thumping and inane resolutions of an excessively liberal minority, are steadily to be avoided. If the Inquiry, having found concentration too difficult, does indeed prove able to maintain the promised attitude of rational impartiality toward world affairs, its unbiased forum will serve a definite need in the University...
...Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They...
Chancellor Chamberlain scored what he called " 'imaginative finance,' although in private transactions it goes by a shorter and less creditable title." He predicted a return by Great Britain to the gold standard at the earliest practicable moment for "there is no monetary standard that can command such confidence as gold...
...completely crushed." Smack- the President brushed aside an elaborate public ceremony at which he was to have turned over his powers to the Vice President before leaving Argentina. Since Roca was sick, let him stay in bed. A brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped out to the seaport of Mar del Plata (where coast guardsmen last January rescued the President from drowning...
...Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous for me: but after a year of busy bootlegging of arms and consolidation of resources behind our army--well, we shall see what we shall see." He may also have meant: a year may give us Austria as well, and serve to divide our enemies against themselves. Europe...