Word: outlasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every practical advantage of the ordinary zipper, and in addition is superior to it from the standpoint of good taste because no metal shows--the units of the fastener are concealed by a grosgrain ribbon that harmonizes with the fabric of the trousers and is guaranteed to outlast the garment...
...Pacifists will find scant comfort in Spengler's pages : "We have entered upon the age of world wars. It began in the 19th Century and will outlast the present and probably the next." Economists will not agree with his derogatory attitude towards economics, which he makes subservient to politics: "This whole crushing depression is purely and simply the result of the decline of State power." Marxists will be enraged at Spengler's flat statement that the World Revolution "has reached its goal," is an accomplished fact. They may regard as an undeserved compliment his charge that "the world...
Cheerily independent, President Roosevelt queried Secretary Hull as to whether a ten-day recess of the Conference might do some good. By this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London...
...Secretary of State, a lawyer by trade and training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
...when the Chicago gangsters were at the height of their power, requests were seriously made for military assistance against them. These requests were strongly criticized as equivalent to open collapse. The situation in New York, though less spectacular, is much the same. Moreover, the harmful psychological effect might long outlast the present depression. The federal government undoubtedly ought to make special appropriations for the crisis, but it ought not to make such appropriations to the cities...