Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...littleness of these pictures is what we shall have to live for again, when the war is done. In the experience of every man, every day, it is what constitutes peace. A grandmother seated in a doorway, dreaming in retrospect; the flying step of a dancer across a stage, like a festive honeybee; a watery cloud breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval...
...retrospect, the exam didn't seem half so bad as it did at the time. And if the account current problem could somehow have been lost or forgotten, the rest of it would have been lost or forgotten, the rest of it would have seemed a little tame. But the A/C got most everybody so on edge that he didn't know what the other problems were about...
...right since that last big exam." are planning to board the New York train at one o'clock Saturday, in order to got a good rest. Apparently the prospect of a weekend in Manhattan, compared with the hustle and bustle of the School and Boston itself, seems calm in retrospect. Jim Carty points out just how hectic things are getting to be here, when he tells us that now he can scarcely run through a second chorus in the morning before (by popular request) he must vacate the shower to the next...
...cost the U.S. $35,413,000,000 (35% of next year's war budget). This time the nation was committed to paying a third of the cost out of taxes, but Secretary William G. McAdoo had advantages that make his problem seem child's play in retrospect. (It was not so easy at the time.) To raise his $11,280,000,000, all McAdoo had to do was 1) lower exemptions for income taxes to $1,000 instead of $3,000, 2) raise the normal tax rate from 2 to 4%, 3) start the mild surtaxes...
There was little in the document that informed men did not know, yet the cumulative effect of its pages was to make the efforts of U.S. diplomacy seem much more real and wise in retrospect than they had often seemed in prospect. Whoever had been caught napping on December 7, 1941, it was not Cordell Hull or ex-Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Said the measured New York Times: "It is hard to see how our government could have done more, in honor, than it did to stave off the worldwide...