Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begins with a low bass note that is almost like a growl in its quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with a quick, nervous melody. Soon all the parts join in to carry on the thread of the words until the voices suddenly blend in a soft chord on the word "Jerusalem...
...cropping up in the metropolitan press, whenever a Supreme Court post becomes vacant, or a major change in Administration policy is decided upon. But with the glorification of the Professor into a public figure, the immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word and yet remain readily accessible for students or the public to tap the vast fountain of knowledge that is surely there. There was great danger that Professor Frankfurter, with the necessary anonymity that must cloak anyone who enters carefully hooded against the press, both the White House and Hyde Park...
...exultant Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment of Greater Germany, cried: "The number of suicides in Vienna remains the same; the difference is that, whereas before Germans committed suicide, it is now Jews! . . . I know some say 'the Jew also is a human being.' Just that word 'also' is the best indication of what the Jew really is! ... Our racial theory is the sole basis for the correct solution of the Jewish problem...
...word in Moscow for several months has been "Watch Kosior, he's gaining on Yezhov!" Yezhov, who is the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union as head of the Secret Political Police, won his power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious...
Twenty members of a Portland, Ore. mountainclimbing club who call themselves Mazamas (after the Indian word for mountain goat) rode in a bus early one morning last week to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, on their way to a fateful climb. Over 50 times the Mazamas had climbed the11,253-ft. mountain. They considered it a routine expedition...