Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopted by the convention in a resolution cyrstalizing the financial doctrines of the party, this new "formula" urges the Government to exact "a special contribution on all forms of fortune and capital." This phrase, is interpreted as urging that interest payments be suspended on all French Government securities and the sums thus realized used to recoup France financially. It is thought that a levy on interest may succeed as being more "orthodox" than one on capital. For the moment M. Caillaux has pledged himself to the measure "as a member of the Radical Party, though not necessarily as Finance Minister...
...serene Olympian at Weimar' as been a favorite phrase applied to Olympus in his old age, as though Goethe, horned in Weimar, were like Zeus in Olympus, in serene calmness far removed from human cares in troubles. But what must we think of a man who, at the age of 74, falls passionately in involve with a girl of 19? . . . 'Passion rings suffering,' he wrote at that time. But the fruit of this passion was one of the deepest and most beautiful love poems ever written, 'The Elegy of Marienad...
...defects of our educational regime may be summed up in one phrase: arbitrary separation of what should be joined. We separate the library from the living room, the activities from the studies, the teacher from the student; we separate the undergraduate from the graduate, so that the former is apt to be too youthfully irresponsible and the latter too serious and professional: we separate one department of knowledge from another: finally we separate education from life itself, so that when the college course is over we abandon books and serious discussion and lapse into a life of mere business, estranged...
...OLIVER H. H. BLACK Reader Black's points are well taken. The phrase, illadvised, must never recur...
...Omit from the marriage service the word "obey" and the phrase "with all my worldly goods I thee endow...