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...Millennium. In Newark, the Erie Railroad, petitioning the Public Service Commission for an increase in fares, promised to modernize 144 commuter coaches so that windows could be opened "even by one lady...
Meighan is not at all frightened by the thought that a whole new crop of folksy announcers, all dropping their final g's, might be as unbearable as the current school of insincere supersalesmen. "On the contrary," Meighan says briskly. "That would be the millennium...
Continent. About the third millennium B.C. he rebelled against her, seizing her sacred hammer or ax or sickle, and is credited in some versions of the myth with having seduced her ; afterwards he set himself up as an authoritarian, patriarchal Thunder-god and kept her in subjection. His tragi-comic destiny (as appears in the poem) is to grow senile and be demoted to a mere God of Revels, a greasy Santa Claus...
...water floods the narrow, fertile valley. For the ancient Egyptians, who did not demand too much of their sacred river, the flood was fine. They built mud dikes around the fields, and caught the flood water in shallow basins. The silt settled to the bottom, keeping the soil fertile, millennium after millennium. When the water. was gone, the peasants planted their crops, often without plowing or other preparation, in the wet soil...
...after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards a human welfare society in America will continue." I do not maintain that the 80th Congress charged headlong into the millennium. 1946-48 represent years in which America could consolidate her position. The proliferation of government agenefes, bureaus, corporations, departments, etc. since 1932 alarms even Democrats--yet screams of anguish arise (from the CRIMSON) when a year passes without the usual bales of half-baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales...