Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iron Duke's Singular Father Sirs...
...case of Chicago is by no means a singular one. Even before the economic to system lapsed into stagnancy there was enough evidence in large municipalities to condemn the ugly hegemony of politics over education. Local politics have only proved themselves a serious drag on the American educational system, and there is every reason to believe that a nationalization of education would effect the necessary financial regulation. Further, a single controlling department would provide uniformity of education and effectively stamp out remaining evidences of American illiteracy. To force a change, however, would require, first, the marshalling of a dormant public...
...first part of the book, Monsieur Sachs has devoted to anecdotes and brief descriptions of the multitude of singular personalities that collected in the Paris of illusion and disillusion after the great war. There appear Erick Satle, that erratic genius of the piano, whose windows were so dirty "the sun never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived...
...bombing of Father Coughlin's house came with singular if not sinister timeliness. He immediately charged that it was an attempt at intimidation, a further persecution of him by his enemies. Having leaped into the thick of Detroit's banking fracas (TIME, April 3), Father Coughlin had just publicly aspersed E. D. Stair, publisher of the Detroit Free Press and non-salaried president of the holding company for closed First National Bank. Father Coughlin had talked of "smart money," charged that insiders gutted First National before the banking holiday...
...sanction of the electorate is the most valid of republican sanctions, and that sanction Mr. Roosevelt undeniably possesses. His campaign, with its pledges of drastic reduction of expenditure, was couched unequivocally in the first person singular. Repeatedly he made the statement that his administration would face extraordinary problems, and the assumption that his personal powers must be exceptional was in no way veiled. The national faith in legislative remedies, and congressional budget balancing, has been seriously impaired, and it was as a result of Mr. Roosevelt's unmistakably pragmatic conception of the presidency that much of his overwhelming support...