Word: reflected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both types promote a sense of values which can be overemphasized. This is the sense of values which gives special importance to immediate material considerations such as position and wealth, instead of to less obvious things such as intellectual and artistic ability, cultivation, and character. Influence and affluence often reflect brains and personality, but the latter qualities too frequently express themselves in other ways for which there is little or no recognition...
...soothe legionaries who were among the B. E. F., President Hoover said: "I wish to state emphatically that the extraordinary proportion of criminal, Communist and non-veteran elements amongst the marchers should not be taken to reflect upon the many thousands of honest, law-abiding men who came to Washington with full right of presentation of their views to Congress. This better element acted at all times to restrain crime and violence, but after the adjournment of Congress a large portion of them returned to their homes and gradually these better elements lost control...
...miles from Japan), assertions that "mysterious American women are spying in Japan" and rehashes of the undeniable fact that the entire U. S. fleet is maneuvering in the Pacific Ocean. "Personally, I think the charges are absurd," barked War Minister Sadoo Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons, mentally recapitulates his conviction. Preston Foster is the tough convict who leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters...
...money to build Mr. Garner's postoffices. But radical it would not be. The pork barrel is one of our most ancient institutions. . . . Mr. Garner's money lending plan was a cruel deception; it was like offering everyone a drink out of a half-pint flask. His projects reflect upon his judgment but they do not challenge the foundations of the existing social order. . . . Mr. Garner's measures would simply make capitalism work somewhat more badly than it is now working. . . . He is the sort of man who, finding his car stalled on the road, would think not of repairing...