Word: long
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long have I enjoyed Letters, but never have written...
...Franklin Roosevelt had a long talk with Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas few days back. Its gist, as freely reported in inner circles: That the President solemnly told Mr. Douglas that he was the Crown Prince & Heir Apparent to the New Deal but that his election in 1940 is an impracticable dream...
...walked in the hills behind Palo Alto with Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, went fishing at the drop of a hat. He took long motor trips, helped raise money for Stanford, talked with old pedagogical friends like Professor Murray (classical literature), Professor Lutz (history), and answered letters that poured...
...fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into the Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and read the newspapers. Then I take another long look down the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California...
...where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...