Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distress is rife and is touching the pocketbooks of Harvard men. Perhaps, with increasing unemployment and men out of work even in Wall Street the Somnolent Cambridge atmosphere may be acrid with the smoke of bullets...
...such killings were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation is particularly rife, General Chiang's act required the highest moral courage...
...troubles than this wild goose chase to which Congress should address itself. ... I don't want anything like this to distract the minds of the people from the great and fundamental economic conditions they are faced with now. We have large surpluses to eat and wear, yet unemployment is rife. Instead of going off witch hunting, why not create a committee to study why, in the midst of plenty, we are in the midst of want? . . . An economic system that permits that has something wrong with it. ... It isn't the preaching of radicals that creates unrest and revolution...
...American public that chose him for positions of high responsibility should unite in honoring the high capacity by which their choice was justified. A statesman of long apprentice-ship, he pursued a clear-headed and unswerving course in a decade when capitalistic evils and pre-war animosities were rife. Legislator and Chief Justice, through the World War and the period of recovery, he conducted his career with the same integrity of purpose...
Disappointment with the results of the London Conference is justifiably rife. The present generation has seen a long succession of American political leaders engaged in making high sounding promises of disarmament, promises which ended where they started--on paper...