Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity of Lincoln's efforts: first (vainly) to win the South to gradual, compensated emancipation; then to forestall class and sectional savagery, to maintain representative government in the torn border States (sometimes he seems to have done so by an act of will), to build, even as the war went on, a foundation for "a just and lasting peace...
...tend to clarify the general nature of her policy, problematical though it remains, and clarify at the same time the attitude of America toward her. She is now in the process of regaining the second piece of territory taken from her in the Versailles treaty, and with the more gradual domination of the little Baltic sea-coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended...
...Netherlands Government taking over; ruthless suppression of native resistance; enforced labor as a "tribute" to the "Motherland"; a change of masters for eleven years during the Napoleonic wars when the British temporarily took the islands; institution of puppet native rulers who are always "advised" by a resident Dutchman; gradual, systematic improvement of colonial Government, bringing with it greater investments, wiser methods of exploitation, louder demands for native self-government...
Yesterday the team went over the final hump as far as hard practices are concerned. From now on there will be a gradual tapering off process as the Crimson gridmen put on the finishing preparation touches for their objective game of the year...
Captain Torbie Macdonald continued to show gradual improvement in his battle with an ailing leg as the Harlowmen ran through an uneventful practice session yesterday. However, the possibility that he will play against Army remained small, for the Crimson leader still favors the injured limb...