Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squeeze out the competent and independent man and to create a hierarchy of those used to obeying, and when the original dictator goes, chaos is the result. Democracy, it is quite true, has been a failure in many countries but democracy was grafted in those countries on the stem of absolutism, and the graft does not do well. "If the people of this country in great numbers become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there can be only one end to it and that end is civil...
...midocean one night last week the S. S. Bremen struck something huge and soft, quivered from stem to stern. Officers stopped the ship, peered out, saw nothing. They thought they had hit a sleeping whale...
...with Gene Merry who played a stellar game Wednesday by netting 18 points. Dick Boys, who has been playing distinctly mediocre ball lately after a whirlwind start at the beginning of the season, will be at center. Captain Ferriter and Bill Henderson in the guard positions, will attempt to stem the attack of Coach McLellan's accurate shooters. HARVARD PROVIDENCE Fletcher, r.f. l.f., Bracken Merry, l.f. r.f., Shapiro Boys, c. c., Koslowski Henderson, r.g. l.g., Reilly Ferriter, l.g. r.g., Kutniewski
...write you in genuine distress to see what we can do to stem the tide of unfavorable publicity which is now flooding the country following your article about Chautauqua in the Jan. 1 issue...
...team candidates last weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...