Word: persist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry Ford. The last essay wanders a bit, forecasting an exact...
...rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...educators, scientists, writers, and leaders of though in all occupations and makes a plea for the modernization of religious teaching. While praising the Bible Professor Holmes advocates ridding the modern man of the necessity of a formal acceptance of many "mediaeval superstitions" in which the great organized churches persist. "The modern mind cannot and does not accept them actually, so we have the unfortunate and essentially dishonest situation of thousands professing to believe what they do not really believe...
...short words and monosyllables. Their language, like that of the Andaman Island pigmies, was uniquely their own. Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...