Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every country has its lawbreakers, its bigots, and its brutes. Democracy does not sponsor or encourage them, whereas bestiality has been a prominent part of Germany's official program. A government can be judged by its aims, by the things it considers desirable. The German goal was to reduce...
British rules of speech have retained some influence in the U.S., Mencken admits. But whereas most Briticisms rarely penetrate below U.S. "levels of cultural pretentions," Americanisms subversively invade the British proletariat via movies, magazines and comic-strips, then worm their insidious way up into the best society.
Such movies are not important, or even as entertaining and well-made as a little more working time could make them. They are just the humble small change of American cinema. But the change, however small, is honest coin; whereas too many of cinema's million-dollar checks are...
"It may seem as if the Committee's proposals for prescribed curricula are antithical to freedom. But a sound democracy can be built only on an informal and intelligent electorate, and specialism does not dispose to political sophistication. A mathematician can be victimized by a Huey Long, whereas, as William...
But in the words "approved by . . ." comes the crux of the entire plan submitted by Dean Buck's committee. Whereas the Yale program is obviously a hodge-podge of requirements which have been formulated by compromise between long-standing interests, the Buck Committee demonstrates that there are certain values available...