Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations, vigorous if not triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...
...each a unit in itself. . . . Whenever a tribe surrendered to the French, the procedure was as follows. ... At first a few old 'prehistoric' rifles would be laid at the feet of the French and a sickly bull brought up for a peace offering. The French commanders would wave them away. Then more and newer rifles would be brought and a better bull prepared as an offering. The French still waved them away. At last many modern rifles would be piled at the feet of the French commanders and a fine bull would be led to slaughter. Then...
...critics, but his artistry is not obvious. Doubtless many of the people who weep when he sings and beat their palms red afterwards cannot recognize it. But the U. S. is at present preoccupied with the music of the Negro; Tenor Hayes has been swept into popularity on this wave of interest, and by paradox, his fame has made his worth recognized. Could he, some wonder, have achieved his phenomenal success simply on the merits of his voice? Samuel Chotzinoff in the New York World: "If Roland Hayes were a white man instead of a Negro, it is doubtful. , , ." Feodor...
...Significance. Despatches announced that the deliberations upon these and succeeding bills are expected to continue for about a fortnight before the measures are put to vote. There can exist scarcely a doubt as to their passage. The whole program now being put through is of course the famed "Third Wave of the Fascist Revolution." which Mussolini has been heralding for months...
...antidote? The Bible in the public schools which will reach 27,000,000 children who receive no moral training in any other place. With 620,580 teachers in the United States, each one devoting ten minutes a day to the reading of the Bible and moral instruction, a wave of morality and good citizenship would be started which would reach every part of our Nation...