Word: strived
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow must, upon reaching the Senate sounding-board, sound off loudly and repeatedly on their chosen theme-but never too specifically. The tariff should be attempted only by acknowledged economic experts. Prohibition is a theme best left alone, though Democrats are now-Wet by definition and Republicans should strive to seem amphibious...
...unemployed veterans. But beyond this they have little to their credit, and as a body which has been intimately connected with war they have done nothing towards preventing its recurrence. They tend to spread fear of war, a fear which grips all the world, and which we must strive to cast...
...From experiences in many lands I have sometimes compared some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
Rudy Vallee, it is reported, will take time off from his crooning to watch those two fortunate institutions, Maine and Yale, which have claim on him as a son, mix it up today in the Yale Bowl. "Time Out" is sure both teams will strive the harder, knowing that their pal Rudy is up there, somewhere, in the stands, singing, softly to himself the Maine' Stein Song to the tune of Boola, Boola, or vice versa .... Yale, incidentally, seems to have solved the problem that has bothered some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into...
...sentence alone on the first page- "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals as men"-may explain this book, and it may not. It is hard to become excited over rabbits. Poetry, drama, philosophy seldom attaches to them. But for those who like them, here are some, colorfully painted...