Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nacimiento uplift is a great monclinal fold, which shows a large variety of beds, of almost all ages. Further east, in the Jemez mountains, there are some of the most spectacular volcanic phenomena of the western part of the United States. Six days a week will be devoted to mapping and to studies of land-forms in this part of the country...
...handle them, seldom gave them a thought. When the U. S. adopted Prohibition, he stopped using alcohol. He was not particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience...
...There is solid ground for believing that North American Protestant sects, moved by political motives, seek to aggravate religious perturbation in Mexico. It is scarcely conceivable that these sects are striving sincerely for religious uplift and the propagation of their own faiths since in their own United States, according to the official census, there are more than 60,000,000 North Americans without any religion whatsoever...
Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...