Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churches, echoed this view: "We cannot make the Communists the scapegoats for a basic condition which made possible such a hysteric outburst." Most sociologists agreed with Dr. Searle that the "basic condition" was economic discrimination against New York's Negroes, which had in turn set up a tragic train of unemployment, undernourishment, bad housing, disease, vice, unrest and, last week, resentful disorder. In three centuries the Negro has attained legal and political equality with the white citizen in New York City. Economically and socially, however, his position has stood still...
...disposition on the part of Chinese leaders there to make hostile political capital out of the friendly statements on Chino-Japanese relations made recently by the Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and General Chiang Kaishek. In friendly personal conversations I convinced these Chinese leaders that it would be a tragic blunder, harmful alike to the Chinese and Japanese peoples, to make a football for domestic Chinese politics out of the growing rapprochement between our two great nations. Eventually I discovered that the Southwest leaders are as keenly alive as are those of the Chinese Government in Nanking to the necessity...
...enlightened opinion of the civilized world should rally to the support of this humane and constructive solution of a tragic problem, and should remind Great Britain of its solemn obligations...
...really necessary for Stillman to cause forty victims' friends such sorrow? Just think, 400 people are probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...
Newman damns Liszt's music when he says that it closely resembles his life. Liszt pronounced his own tragic epitaph when after an unusually flattering ovation he once said: "I would gladly give up all this . . . if I could only produce one really creative work...