Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of Europe, and thereby to take it into their fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border the Catholic Church, Pope, Bishops and Priests have been brought in slanderous connection with Bolshevism, and books, periodicals and newspapers have spoken of the brotherhood between Rome and Moscow. Spain has opened the eyes of those who can still...
What the GOP is up against in this particular courtship was indicated last week when U. S. silver production figures were released for the first six months of 1936. By order of President Roosevelt the Treasury has been buying for the past two years all the silver freshly mined in the U. S. For this the Treasury paid a fictitiously high price-78? per oz. last week. If this same silver had been sold in the world market, it would have brought the current world price-45? per oz. last week. Under the stimulus of this 33? Government bounty...
Wilfred Brandon is the most modern-minded U. S. spirit to tell earthlings about his own particular brand of the Hereafter, a realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their...
...Billy the Kid in 1926, romanticized accounts of the lives of Western desperadoes have become as commonplace in the U. S. literary scene as gangster films in the cinema. Last week the appearance of a routine volume dealing with a minor Texas badman not only revealed how thoroughly this particular field of Americana had been combed but suggested that a work of definite historical value might be produced if Western biographers would turn their eyes away from the gunsmoke of legend that surrounds their heroes and concentrate on the environments in which they flourished. As in Thomas Ripley...
...voluble characters who arouse as much sympathy: notably his patient father. Once when Espen muttered that he had not asked to be born. "Father looked calmly at me, stroked his beard, and said in an even voice: 'Nor did anyone, I believe, ever exactly send for yon in particular...