Word: stratas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parisians viewed with satisfaction their "artificial fog" defense-strata of titanium tetrachloride (used in skywriting) laid over the city by planes, blown over it from towers...
...keynote of these artists is that "the mood of the country dominates its painters," and Wells is one who is strongly under the singular spell of the region. The seemingly unreal colors and the patterns of curving rock strata have been used by him as the basis for powerful and intricate designs. The Death Valley and Otowi landscapes are done in a swirling, rhythmic manner with different tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much...
...expressed. It is closer than it has ever been to its ideal of "veritas," for like a true democracy, it puts its trust in the common sense of the individual and offers him every school of thought from which to choose his own. Its classes contain men from more strata of society, its lecture rooms are the goal of more men, its prestige and influence are felt farther abroad than ever before...
...them. I want you to know that there was uncheckable enthusiasm along every street (hat Nazi troops marched through. Of course, it is also true that before the troops ever came across the border, thousands of German spirit-stirrer-uppers, so to speak, had permeated all the strata of Vienna, and, joined by the frenzied local Nazis began whipping the enthusiasm of the people. You can readily gather how enthusiastic the better elements of the city were, when I tell you that not less than 800 individuals committed suicide within a few days, and I don't believe that...
...labor. Lewis is the chief spokesman of labor; in the White House he could no longer be that. While a labor President, backed by a majority in Congress, could make great contributions toward winning security for labor's millions, a President dependent on the support of other strata of the population would have to heed various pressures. To be the leader of an aggressive, growing labor movement makes Lewis far more serviceable to the working people than to be a captive in the White House...