Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words of Kahin, the conference next spring "will be devoted to arriving at the basis for a permanent European and Far Eastern peace." Over 15 prominent eastern colleges will participate, each one sending a delegation representing a world power...
...which are in demand, all are big favorites in certain sections of the country. Yet, they all vary in style and size. Some have novelty features that catch on, and others have music "fascinate," still others have simplicity that sells, and there are those whose showmanship is "the magnetic power;" nevertheless they are all box office attractions. Sometimes we wonder if really preparing music in the pure sense is worth the trouble because in many places our audiences seem to turn a deaf ear to music and only see what happens in front of or around the music...
...Blood is being spilled; and the statesman is less than human who is not trying to achieve, at this terrible cost, a world in which peace can endure. Neither is he a true statesman if he does not realize that, under the present system of the balance of power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that man as a whole has not a single common interest save...
...majority of French opinion...is inclined to regard the Versailles Peace, in retrospect, as too mild, rather than too harsh, and to demand that the present war shall be followed by a peace which would completely eliminate any possibility of a revival of German military power...
...them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self-starting merely through lack of either the opportunity or the incentive to develop that power...