Word: sown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of regional art rests upon the idea that different sections of the U. S. should compete with one another just as Old World cities competed in the building of Gothic cathedrals. Only thus he believes, can the U. S. develop a truly national art. Whether PWAP has sown the seeds of a national art no man can yet tell, but, beyond dispute, PWAP's investment has not only enormously stimulated the public's interest but has also revealed definite regional traits in art. Some of these districts and their characteristics...
...seeds of destruction of the capitalist system are sown by itself. Prosperity depends on profits, the conversion of profits into capital, the increasing accumulation of that capital. So long as there were outlets for this accumulation, the system managed to get along, despite ups and downs and frequent "cyclical" depressions. The decline of capitalism is the result of old age. Its "historical role" is over. This is owing to the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion"-industrial expansion, creation of new industries, opening up of new land. Stagnation has set in. The forces of production overwhelm the forces...
...Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish the subsoil moisture enough to make possible a good winter wheat crop next year...
...contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage shot up by 6%. For this His Majesty's Government offered last week no apology or explanation...
...mention of the epidemic was abetted by the daily press of the country at large and by the news-gathering agencies. The right of the people to a free press, of which we have heard so much of late, was denied, and the seeds of a deadly disease were sown among innocent victims of a cowardly and conniving press and commercial greed. . . . C. E. LOWRY Editor The Gibson Courier Gibson City, Ill. According to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, travelers need have no more fear of visiting Chicago than any other large city. The occurrence...