Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution was just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend his days in a library, spinning out his gigantic web of theory, Engels lived a more normally diversified life. He hunted with the English landowners he despised, just for the exercise. He rushed off to join the dud German revolution...
...crushing burden of his disillusion and the gnawing vacuum of unfaith make life impossible. Track, the guilty gangster, has fallen into the customary, neurotic madness of killers; everybody connected with his crime must be silenced before he can feel safe. Mio and Miriamne are hopelessly entangled in this web of social injustice and human madness and for them there is but one moment of ecstatic communion before the staccato beat of the machine gun snaps their bonds...
...Winter of the Boston Transcript reports that this weekend will be one of the biggest of the winter sports season. Everything is happening at once, with the ski team entering four championships, and the snow trains making a web over New England...
...were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...
...Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, said the report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...