Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, I succeeded in getting a seat only in the confusion after an old lady had fainted and they had carried her out) and for an hour a hired European lecturer talked on "Esoteric Symbolism in the later Byzantine schools". This, while humanity hangs on the brink of utter chaos...
...policy did not rend the structure of government to its foundations, as timid conservatism predicted; nor did woman's suffrage destroy the fabric of society; nor have direct primaries upset the balance of our political processes. "As a matter of plain fact, I am in some things an utter conservative, determined to conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies of the fathers which for so many years have made our country the freest and the happiest, the most prosperous and the most powerful nation upon the face of the earth. "There is, however, one firm...
...gave his opinions, from an economic standpoint, on our relations with Russia. His points were: 1) that official recognition would not promote trade relations with Russia -other governments have tried the experiment and failed, 2) that all charitable relief can hope to do is "lift special groups from utter destitution up to the level of the general poverty," 3) that Russia must restore fundamental conditions of security and confidence before reconstruction can be undertaken...
...equal value, despising the words and theology of the higher criticism. He wishes to write of the Christ whom he sees in the gospels, without let or hindrance. His style is somewhat wordy, but of unsurpassed brilliance in some parts, as, for example, where he describes the utter lowliness of the manger. Another characteristic of the book is its succession of keen historical settings. In three short pages he traces the history of Israel from the days of the slavery in Egypt to the later slavery under Rome. And he does it with such vividness that the reader really lives...
...Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated God of War": the Mongolia whose books and priests and legends speak of the day when the swastika of Jenghis Khan will be carried Westward, and all of Europe will fall under "the last march of the Mongols". "Asta is awakened and her sons utter bold words...