Word: raw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take from our gold hoard of $15,000,000,000 the sum of $5,000,000,000 and with this sum sit into a conference of nations to redistribute the sources of raw materials...
Elucidated Planner Neylan: "In spite of all the propaganda that can be churned up, a projected war will be one of sordid materialism devoid of any vestige of idealism. The objective is raw materials...
...anticipated Crimson victories on the Southern trip during the spring holidays Kept Indorse by the wintry March weather and forced to practice at night in dusty Briggs Cage, the squad was raw and unorganized when it hit the Dixie trail on April 1. The Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Navy tens which faced the Crimson had been outdoors for over month; thus it was no surprise when they gathered a total of 33 points as against 0 for the players from Cambridge. The series, however, gave the squad some much-needed outdoor contact work, and, when they began outdoor workouts...
History is at best violent, doubly so in such periods. Bombers over Shanghai and Guernica, refugees from Barcelona and Prague, tell stories whose raw horror blurs the minds of those who try to understand the causes of war. When philosophers, economists, historians try to penetrate the wild surface of events, to see the forces that have created them, their dry generalizations and statistics seem cold beside the living reality of the headlines. In different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have...
...knew about the U. S. Few artists have seen as much. Benton looked on in awe at his father's breakfast table 40 years ago as the Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, engulfed one poached egg on half a baked potato at every bite. He lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with an eye for the smoking valleys, the shanty boats on the rivers, the boom towns, tumbled farms...