Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
...certain Mr. Altman of Brooklyn visited an old colonial house purchased long before by his father and now ready for the wreckers. Prowling through the empty rooms he stopped and stared at a strange thing hanging over a mantel. Nearly a foot long and apparently mummified, it had two widespread, goatish feet, a curling tail, flaps of tissue extending from its body like wings, a grotesque caricature of a human face with plump cheeks, beady eyes, a pursed, smirking mouth...
...invariable Soviet defense against its critics ("You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs") Author Muggeridge turns an unsympathetic ear. He accuses the Soviet Government of direct responsibility for famine conditions, of attempting to belittle and conceal conditions. He implies that dislike of the Soviet system is widespread in Russia, says the Russian experiment "cannot be carried through to the end because it depends on hate. It presupposes a society in a perpetual ferment of hate, or of class war. . . . No whole society can hate long enough to destroy itself; and self-destruction is the only conceivable...
...have been on ever since 1914. We need fewer monetary doctors, more hard work, and above all, no more panaceas. Winding up his 272-page warning, Author Warburg offers urbane but left-handed benediction to his onetime chief: "Whether the Roosevelt program leads us to recovery or chaos, to widespread prosperity or national ruin, let no one say that Roosevelt lacked the courage of his convictions. . . ." The Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among...
...rightly sense the judgment of businessmen on the workings of the National Industrial Recovery Act, it is that the law has done much good. . . . But I also sense a very widespread fear that an act, based on the self-regulation of business with government approval . . . may become an autocratic act for the regimentation of business by the Government...