Word: perish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
There lies the task of those who read the CRIMSON. As your generation succeeds or fails in this task, so will you and your children's children live in happiness or perish in unparalleled catastrophes. A foundation has been laid. What will you build...
...revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give up building skyscrapers, railroads, empires, military machines, and write...
...believes that he would approve the nomination of Ford, or even Bryan. His "hope" that a Progressive Democrat would be chosen to fill the vacant seat from Colorado may be a hit at the conservative Underwood. Possibly he means to support his son-in-law, whom he allowed to perish miserably at San Francisco when a turn of his thumb might have made him President McAdoo, after recommending another candidate to Governor Sweet, has also endorsed Mr. Wilson's choice, while Bryan backed up McAdoo's first selection...
...Allen chose a text as follows: "Where there is no vision the people perish; but he that keeneth the law, happy is he". To interpret his text he restated it. Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; where there is no restraint the people perish". He stated as his belief that there was a breaking down of moral standards which could not be accounted for by the war or by the heterogeneity of the United States. "The only safeguard of any country", he stated, "is the respect of the people for law. We cannot expect a future...