Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their...
...door of the old building were two bronze eagles to symbolize the paper's name, its wide flight for news. Under the Eagle's eagles passed many a capable newsman, such famed Brooklyn editors as Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe, who wrote sober, sensible Eagle editorials for 38 years...
...rarely sees his players on the stage, seemed to put little attention to the fact that Ah Wilderness sober-minded and frivolous to chuckling, that Without End, the following year, failed. Son of actor whose name was known 48 years ago, attended Princeton in 1906 7. Wanderlust caused him to leave college. He a good deal of Central and South America, spent two years at sea, is supposed to have been a beach-comber for a time before he returned to America...
...Tall, sober, handsome and immaculately dressed Satirist Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis...
...influences that work for war, and the part the individual can play in fighting them, such as by political pressure, peace propaganda, and continuous self-education in the field of international events, is the most successful handling of the subject that Harvard has seen in many years. And a sober and clear-headed approach to the problem of keeping peace is not only our best insurance for the future; it is also the finest tribute we can pay to the daring and ideals of the men who fought and died eighteen years...