Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compelling are a hundred-odd pages of Joseph and His Brethren that the reader, enthusiastic, mouths them "strong," "fundamental," and "in the best tradition of English novels of the soil." But when the farmland seasons begin inevitably to recur, and the simple rustics inevitably to repeat themselves, that same reader, despondent, flutters the pages and lights upon the publisher's explanation that the work was originally planned as a short story, and later expanded to its 372 pages. Obviously ill adapted to short story, the theme of nature's dogged hold upon the lives of men is here...
...until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again...
...announcement of the record surplus was accompanied by the caution that many income items will not recur, that next year's surplus should not be judged by this year's, that tax reduction should not be too radical. At the next session of Congress there will doubtless be a conflict between enthusiasts who want to slice some $500,000,000 from the national taxes and conservatives who feel that a cut of even $300,000,000 is unsafe...
...Washington, D. C. The city, as originally planned, was to have expanded in concentric rings about the Capitol. But what has happened? Washington has grown so disproportionately westward that the Capitol now clings to the city's eastward fringe. A development so lopsided and undignified, decided Australians, shall not recur at Canberra...
...world, one knows, is always full of a sufficient number of portentous things. Miners strike; Chinamen war; cities fall; Borah talks; art, music and education trend; crime waves, tongs war, elections recur with a certain regularity...