Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the right of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the U. S. : 'to be different is to be indecent.' " It is a crowded age, especially in Europe, whose population has increased from 180,000,000 to 460,000,000 since 1800. Ortega y Gasset denies...
...Japan will proclaim such an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine I will support her with all my power either during my Presidency or after its expiration...
...enough to make a complete circle around the infield. When all the athletes had marched past the tribune of honor and grouped themselves in the infield, Vice President Curtis stood up to deliver 27 momentous words: "In the name of the President of the United States, I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the Tenth Olympiad of the Modern...
...legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy was the dangerous procedure of fighting fire with fire, Mr. McAdoo macadoodled: "I would accept the challenge with supreme confidence...
...Lausanne Conference will bluntly proclaim," stated Wolff's "that Reparations are at an end, so far as Europe is concerned...