Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...into the presidency of Megalopolis, a society of Boston Greeks. In his cubbyhole sanctum Felix treasures the programs of the charity balls he sponsored. He contributed a full $2,000 to the erection of a high school near his home town, and carefully preserves his cancelled checks as living proof of his munificence...
...women of Britain have shown how free people defend what they know to be right. Their heroic defense will be recorded for all time. It will be perpetual proof that democracy, when put to the test, can show the stuff of which it is made...
...ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer at such diverse phenomena as Karnak's temples, Mozart quartets, Chinese gardening, Marxism, Aztec city planning, jazz, Greek vases, Napoleon, Russian grammar...
...Germany cannot be in prime condition to fight wars of conquest until she is blockade-proof. To be blockade-proof she needs adequate supplies of food for her people and oil for her machines. She did not have those things when World War II began and all her conquests of 1940 have not won them for her. The logic of conquest is that at the first convenient opportunity Hitler must turn to get them, turn southeast into the granary of Europe...
...about. And so I turned my attention to writing. I tried to write a great many things, and they were all flops. I even sat and wrote a comic history of the U. S. I don't know how many thousand words I wrote, which was proof I didn't know what I was writing about. Right in the midst of my desire to become a writer I was fired. I have been fired from practically every studio in Hollywood, including some of those that aren't even painted...