Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bawling Mr. Kuhn and the bawling committeemen between them produced one significant fact: "To level off this vicious criticism," the Bund has discarded its Storm Trooper uniforms, its Hitler Swastikas, the Nazi salute...
...eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons, for common influenza is still a mystery to medical science...
Fortunately, facts will not bear out this saga of declining freedom at Harvard. Not a university law but an unwritten custom prevented the Young Communist League from distributing its message from door to door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become...
...edge. Other dodges of his: asymmetric layouts, wide white margins ("space for your laundry list"), photographs with cockeyed perspective. Says he of his devices: "Their effectiveness begins to wear off when everybody does it. . . . If you are different, you are all right." In a field notorious for its vicious circle of mutual imitation, Agha usually manages to be different...
...which a war boom, might offer, but the soundest element of last week's incipient boom was that it had already stimulated employment, thereby increasing purchasing power to support a continuation of bigger production. By reemployment such a boom, even if false, might inaugurate the opposite of the vicious circle of depression: the beginning of a delicious circle of recovery...