Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent and well-educated. Henceforth, no peevish utterances by public officials as to collegiate irresponsibility will carry weight. The next step is up to the government, more specifically, to Congress itself. What must be done, before the present agitation over Civil Service dies out, is to withdraw from the realm of politics, by Congressional legislation, an appreciable number of the positions in the upper strata of departments responsible for public administration. In other words, if Civil Service is over to attract college graduates in large quantities, it must be possible for a man who has proved his ability to rise...
...yourself into this realm of fantasy the chances are you'll come away with a relatively satisfied feeling about the whole thing. It's sort of nice to reminisce about it all as you're leaving the lobby. But don't attempt going over it in detail...
...cricket to do anything like that, but we envision the picture with considerable pride. Baseball has never attained much popularity in Britain. Frontal attacks such as Harvard made successfully on her sister island empire have failed in the realm of George V. It may be that our premier baseballer is taking a page from the tactics of radical labor agitators and is "burrowing from within...
...last week no reputable airline had ever blamed a crash on lightning. Lacking an authentic case of lightning destroying an airplane and its occupants in flight, most aeronautic experts considered such a thing outside the realm of j possibility. According to Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, Mechanical Engineering department head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Federal Aviation Commission (see above), there have been several cases of balloons being struck by lightning and a few cases of minor damage to heavier-than-air craft. But, says that onetime naval commander, "the probability of serious effect of lightning...
...earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...