Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic aggrandizement of the Soviets* ever since. At present he is thought to be on exceedingly good terms with the Communist leaders, and can count on the powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
That evening the winds raged, the channels foamed and a deluge fell. The welcomers bought out the slicker, gum-boot and food supply of the isolated little resort and waited with the homing argonauts until the second day, clear and fine, permitted returning to Wiscasset for the postponed official ceremonies...
...finishes college with his earlier standards completely thrown down and nothing set up in their place. To revent to religion goes as much against his reason as to construct a new order goes beyond his ability. For such a man the difference between the super-natural--the resort of all religious teachers--and the natural--the real world of today--is merely the difference between ignorance and knowledge. The great need of the times is for a new Secrates to arise in the Universities and establish once for all, independently of super-natural hypotheses, that "Virtue vs's Knowledge...
Busy people should not be required to resort to a dictionary to ferret out your mysterious expressions when discussing ordinary happenings. I might.add also that some of your musical criticisms...
...established firm of high repute which finds itself, for one reason or another in straits. It has lost a substantial part of its business. With difficulty it makes both ends meet, but it keeps 10% of its employes hanging about the premises doing nothing but drawing pay. The directors resort to temporary shifts which only postpone the crash...