Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could ride a nag in a hedgehopping race. Long before last week, however, the steeplechase Grand National had taken its place with the flat Derby as social tops in English horse racing. Into the little marmalade-manufacturing town of Aintree poured 250,000 spectators, cockney sports, peers of the realm, ambassadors, socialites, to witness the 100th running...
...type of man, more capable of truly representing the American nation, should be chosen; and in the present-day world, this is particularly important. Intelligent cooperation among the democracies of the world is essential to world peace, and such cooperation will never be possible while it remains in the realm of academic theorizing. Men of practical ability, willing to play an active role in world affairs, are essential; and the awarding of Rhodes Scholarships should be directed toward this...
...years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs. . . . Thirteen million Americans are now unemployed. Their numbers are steadily increasing, as the nation drifts with terrifying and deadly sureness to the never, never realm of financial bankruptcy, economic collapse and human tragedy. This is appallingly true, despite the fact that Government has dipped into the public purse to make possible the granting of huge subsidies to industry, agriculture, banking and finance. . . . Our national internal economy has attained the amazing condition where it appears that...
...Philosophy A last week the ethereal realm of Philosophy was suddenly brought to earth by a demand of the lecturer that "Somebody wake up that man in the back row!" There was a good deal of shuffling around in seats then, so much, in fact, that not many could hear the reply from the dozer's neighbor: "You wake him up. You put him to sleep...
...though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...