Word: raves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Thornton Niven Wilder but more so, Virginia Woolf is a widely-read if not popular writer whose public is largely made up of people who have not the vaguest idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake...
...vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...
...Lionel de Jersey Collection consists almost exclusively of rave and important sixteenth and seventeenth century literature. Thorlakason's work has been added to the collection in its relation to Milton, though it has an equally strong connection with the leelandic group...
...invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which steps up oscillating currents to high potentials (15,000,000 volts he avers, with 100,000,000 possible...
...make all this more vivid Stalin envisioned what he conceives to be the current consternation in Capitalist countries. "Look," he cried, "how some well-known and honorable gentlemen rave and yell against our party?Fish of the United States, Churchill of England and Poincare of France. Why do they yell and rave? Because the policy of our party is correct and because it is achieving victory after victory...