Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that will enable union leaders to reestablish the positions they lost in the years of unemployment that followed...
...France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
...this issue very sensibly, I think, insists on the primary need of technique in undergraduate writing;--probably this policy is responsible for the excellence not only of "Derga Fer Rogan," but also of much of the other material. The satire contributed by Mr. John Finley Jr. is a telling reaction against the orgy of triumphant platitude in our industrial life. A deliberate monotony of style that never degenerates into mere burlesque reveals in all its ridiculous solemnity the sentimentalism so dear to readers of the American Magazine and of American magazines in general. This is a convincing and pitiless exposure...
Following the President's speech, newspapers published a deluge of reports about its political reaction. Partisan papers flew into headlines. One side published " Harding's Speech Splits Party." The other side (notably The Christian Science Monitor] ran " President Finds His Court Policy Backed by Public...
...think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem likely to diminish. The rise in sugar, with its considerable political reaction (see page 2) provided the center of interest and discussion...