Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...
...disturbed because doubt had been cast on the constancy of m. The doubter was Professor George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey of Washington University (St. Louis). In a specially arranged speech after the close of the meeting, he urged that m be considered a variable, offered experiments to back up his view...
...rumbles tediously into full view, like a steamroller, blocks away. At once the Vagabond is aware of the menace, but it seems silly to be worried at so remote a doom. So he continues to flirt with frivolity, chasing his gaudy butterflies, granting full audience to every thought which whimpers: "Rest sleep, dream, doze--you are secure, you must not recover too quickly from the rigors of the holidays, you have ten days yet--rest, all will be well...
...Before the war, little Teruel was known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...
...Robert is generally conceded to have "made" British foreign policy in its more important aspects, and he more than anyone else has kept the British & French Governments in a position of ''maintaining the balance in Spain" between Rightists and Leftists. It is Sir Robert's view that nothing would be more dangerous for Europe, nothing more likely to provoke an immediate war, than for Germany to feel there had been a clear-cut "Red" victory in Spain, or for France to feel there had been a clear-cut "Fascist" victory; that instead compromise-the traditional British virtue...