Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter Schubert came of prolific peasant stock. His father, Franz Schubert, parish schoolmaster of Lichtenthal, now a suburb of Vienna, had 14 children by his first wife, five by his second. Brother Ferdinand himself had 17 children. This family fecundity, denied natural expression in Composer Franz Peter, found its outlet in an extraordinary musical fertility. Schubert, who died at the age of 31, was the most prolific first-rate composer who ever lived. Besides symphonies, choral works, masses, vocal duos, songs with instrumental accompaniment and a huge stack of miscellaneous chamber music, he wrote an average of nearly two songs...
...deal has long been mooted whereby Poland may obtain an outlet to the sea at Memel, and give up to Germany her present corridor to the sea which divides East Prussia from the Reich. Rumors that the German Navy was steaming out last week to seize Memel quietly evaporated...
Citing the example of Italy's annexation of Ethiopia, a barren acquisition admittedly made to unify the Italian people and provide an outlet for rest lessness in the fighting forces, Wild said that the cry for colonies is only a cloak for Fascism's internal need for an enemy to flaunt before the people...
...class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced Yeats, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke when they had only small reputations abroad, brought out poets of the stature of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Vachel Lindsay, who had never published anywhere until Poetry gave them an outlet...
Today in his briefcase Foreign Minister Delbos carries the word to Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, and to Prague that the outlet for Germany will be found principally in redistribution of colonies. This welcome news is the result of a conference Monday and Tuesday in London which would up in a happy statement that England would stand by France in her alliance with the Little Entente. Simultaneously "trial balloons" ascended and hints were let slip that in the near future a general conference of Colonial Powers would be held for some sort of a reshuffle of Germany's old possessions...