Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas address to the world, Franklin Roosevelt said: ". . Let us hope that the boon of peace which we in this country and in the whole Western Hemisphere enjoy under the providence of God may likewise be vouchsafed to all nations and all peoples. We desire peace. We shall work for peace. We covet neither the lands nor the possessions of any other nation or people...
...will probably advance slowly. . . . It seems probable that the average price of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange will be higher than it has been this year and that it will be above the level of 1935 and below that of 1936. . . . The year as a whole will almost surely be a better business year than this has been, but it is quite possible that the trend of affairs may be downward again before it draws toward its close...
President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois took the position that he was interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...
Extradited to New York, Philip Musica took the whole blame, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The rest of the Musicas dropped out of circulation. Philip stayed in the Tombs, helping the District Attorney's office with the case. "The Human Hair Mystery" got a big play in the papers of 1913, when (according to Who's Who) Frank Donald Coster was a practicing physician in New York...
...with one of the most straightforward yet complete declarations of a poet's purpose yet published. "A poem is an uncovering of truth of so fundamental and general a kind that no other name besides poetry is adequate except truth. . . . Truth is the result when reality as a whole is uncovered by those faculties which apprehend in terms of entirety, rather than in terms merely of parts. The person who writes a poem for the right reasons has felt the need of exercising such faculties, has such faculties. The person who reads a poem for the right reasons...