Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought his 25¢ pamphlet. They sent the word back East to the old home-folks...
...operate the twenty-nine tons of bells will be dilletante amateurs or professionals. In the latter case, the Sunday concerts would be eminently in keeping with New Deal re-employment programs. It is hoped, in any case, that in voting their momentous action the Corporation considered well its myriad aspects and ramifications and were in no way influenced by pressure from the Cambridge Local of the Amalgamated Bell-Ringers Union...
Education's myriad Wirts were ready for anything up to and including a Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government...
...subversive force that Mes behind the arming and counter-arming of nations; there are mines, smelters, armament works, holding companies, and banks, entangled in an international embrace, yet working inevitably for the destruction of such little internationalism as the world has achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation of the Treaty of Trianon, but when Hungary defaulted on the bill the armorers...
Confusing to the untraveled are the myriad land dots in the eastern Mediterranean, which loosely make up the Isles of Greece. Three of the largest are of current political interest. Far west, due south of Italian Sicily is the Island of Malta which revolted against Napoleon in 1798 and was voluntarily annexed to Britain by the Treaty of Paris (1814). Here the Knights of Malta established a hospital, a fortress, and the medieval forerunner of the Red Cross after the Crusades. Here the British Government has had much trouble in recent years with a population largely Italian and predominantly Roman...