Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would bear fruit--can a resolution bear fruit?--if the resolver were encouraged by their departments to the extent of being supplied in June with a detailed prospectus of the next term's work. Even more would be fruitful if it once became the thing to do, as we understand it is at two English institutions about which we are told painfully often...
Return of Moses. Senator Johnson's forces-for-delay last week received support from two new quarters. Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, potent president pro tempore of the Senate returned from a European jaunt to declare: "What I don't understand is all the rush in putting the treaty through the Senate. I haven't heard of any power that is going to build a great navy between now and December. The Senate is pretty jaded to tackle so important a subject...
...caught resulted from his softheartedness in not actually killing some nine women whom he attacked, merely pricking and slashing them lightly with his penknife and letting them go. One such victim recognized and later denounced him to the completely baffled police. His wife sobbed last week: "I don't understand. I can't believe it! Peter was always so kind and gentle...
...take for granted are the things for which we no longer fight. But when a populace becomes indifferent to its freedom, it begins to lose it." Liberty, once a matter of politics, has now become an affair of individual psychology. "Would you be free? Then first become civilized. To understand this bit of ancient wisdom is to distinguish the true liberal from his vociferous imitator." The struggle for freedom, says Author Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty...
...women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel but not understand what it meant when his parson father was ostracized and persecuted because he was against the War, when his soldier brother, not much older than Tony, shot himself in France because he acquired a venereal disease. Tony grew up outwardly normal, attractive, good at games, mildly social; inwardly...