Word: sordid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ASTOUNDED GARBLED INTERPRETATION HURRIED INTERVIEW REPRESENTATIVE TIME ACTIVITIES OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT FOR PROMOTION INDUSTRIAL PEACE. NEVER DERIDED EFFORTS MADE SUCCESSFULLY TO CREATE UNDERSTANDING AND INTENSIFY PRODUCTIVE RESULTS. USE OF EXPRESSION SORDID MEANS UNWARRANTABLE. AM ARDENT SUPPORTER ALL ORGANIZED ENDEAVOR STIMULATE SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL LIFE...
...Oxford Group when he found that Roman Catholic representatives were not included as signatories to a Group press manifesto concerning "religious freedom." Sir Patrick added that on investigating Group claims to have forestalled work stoppages in the Midlands, he had found they had actually been avoided by "sordid means" -he used the phrase with a twinkle in his eye-"like better pay and better hours...
...subdued rumble of the city . . . and the whistles of launches returning to the warships passed over the dismal electric bulbs at the ends of blind alleys and lanes; around them crumbling walls emerged from empty darkness, revealed with all their blemishes by that unflinching light from which a sordid eternity seemed to emanate. Hidden by those walls, half a million men: those of the spinning-mills, those who had worked 16 hours a day since childhood, the people of ulcers, of scoliosis, of famine. The globes which protected the electric bulbs became misty, and in a few minutes the great...
...Example: Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, member of Parliament, ardent Group sympathizer. Last week Sir Patrick derided Buchmanite claims to have settled three impending work stoppages in the Midlands by urging Buchmanite principles on management and labor. Sir Patrick investigated, decided that the trouble had been cured by "sordid means like better pay and better hours...
...would still be physically and morally degrading. A theologian even more eminent than Professor Hocking has made the perfectly sound, biologically realistic point that it would be a tragedy for us in the United States if Hitlerism should triumph,--but that the tragedy would be vastly greater, and more sordid for us, if Hitlerism should indeed be defeated without our sharing in its overthrow...