Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former years, the Inquiry plans to remain a non-partisan organization, with wide ranges of opinion represented on its governing boards. As an organization, it refrains from taking a definite stand on any topic, but it receives at its open forums both liberal and conservative, radical and reactionary...
...elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder...
...United Miner Murray concluded his appeal even more strongly: "Today you are fighting the coal companies, but tomorrow, if you remain on strike, you will be fighting the Government of the United Slates. Today you are conducting a strike. But tomorrow you would be conducting a rebellion...
...book forget it as a book. ... Do not try to remember the names of any of the people as they appear, or the names of the places they frequent. . . . When you have finished the book to its triumphant end. you will find that, without your knowing it, there will remain in your mind out of the hundreds of people who have passed before your eyes, certain unforgettable men and women, whose lives you have lived with them, across the seas and centuries." Plot in the Western sense there is none. A continuous narrative, it contains dozens of separate stories...
...minimum has been carried out. Beside the insoluble difficulty of the architecture itself, the original problem was twofold; heavy carpets and rough plaster finish both absorbed sound, prevented resonance, and generally marred the performances of a capable choir. Some of the carpet has now been taken up, but conditions remain so bad that cushionless pews must be resorted to for the Sunday service, and still it is impossible for the choir to realize its potentialities...