Word: ruralization
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...Hollywood, Calif., cinema, sound engineers listed ten words barred from cinemas: Cohesion, distilling, aluminum, catastrophe, seething, felicitations, nemesis, procrastination, hippopotamus, and rural. Reason: most film actors hiss or swallow them...
...Imported fuel oil, lubricating oil. gas oil and kerosene will pay another penny, bringing the tax to 9d a gallon. Here was a tax that touched every thatched cottage, for despite the growing grid of high tension lines in Britain, the average rural house is still lamplit...
Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose...
...occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra put his case to rural Uruguayans who have almost forgotten how to die in civil...
...heavy-jowled, looks not unlike President Harding. Uruguayans have never considered him the dictator type. A graduate of Montevideo University, he early gave up law practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland...