Word: surer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political struggle for power, there is no surer road to success than the expenditure of huge sums of money. Money is the most potent ally which a political candidate can secure. By spreading its benefits over a wide area, the campaigner can gather about his standard a group of partisans who will support him regardless of his party affiliations personal character or past record...
...five passed into their second week and approached full term condition, their chances for life became surer. All cried lustily, a good sign. Whispered the mother of the phenomenon, as her swollen legs subsided: ". . . Suis contente. ... If they die, they will go to Heaven, and next year perhaps, we will have another." In the next room waited lactating neighbors to give drachms of their superabundant milk to the quintuplets...
...Wartime chief. In the few passages where Wilson was touched upon, however, his former disciple was affectionate if not fervid. While assuring his audience that "we do not contemplate membership," President Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League of Nations. He felt himself on surer ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population was stirred, as never before, by President Wilson's gallant appeal to them - to those masses - to banish future war. . . . Through all the centuries and down to the world conflict...
...come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could not get in to hear her, no delegation from Kansas City, no silver plaques, she at least established herself as a better singer, a surer actress...
...interesting discussion of what might be called administrative phases of international organization. The Coudenove-Kalergi theory of continental internationalism is utterly demolished, but a sensible functional devolution of international activity is proposed to take its place. Emphasis is justly laid on the atmosphere of technical cooperation as a surer route to internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism from the alarmist point of this is of course all drivel...