Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Years' War. "For thirty years the human mind has suffered confusion, myriads of lives have suffered premature disaster, and the necessities of war still dominate life and thought. Yet this half-century has not been a monotone of evil, but a black and white confusion, bewilderingly paradoxical until beneath its contrasts the underlying transformation is recognized. On the one hand there has been ... a tremendous sense of new opportunities of ... material security, of personal readjustment, of love relieved from fear - a sense of the possibility of a development as far-reaching as any that already lie in the human...
...feet beneath the Victorian grotesqueness of Memorial Hall lies a mass of sleek, modern offices that may soon become an Activities Center for University students...
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet but whose experience of it has been soured by a frigid, all too high-minded wife, O'Connor redeems the character from mere ridiculousness by noting that "he knew he could never be like any other sensible man, but would keep on to the day he died, pining...
...willingness to play, and experience of the thirties showed that a number of football players always seemed to find berths on the spring-time rugby squad. With the single and vital exception of lacking a coach, '48 rugby prospects are bright. Whenever Soldiers Field sod is finally revealed from beneath snow drifts, a rugby team can expect to have the usual H.A.A. facilities at their disposal...
...Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then keep her steady as she went. Said he: "We'll ride it down. Everybody should be doing the same...