Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention discussed three main topics: farm relief, election expenses, flood control. Farm relief brought out the most lively expressions of opinion. Governor John Hammill of Iowa and Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska, indeed, distinctly rippled the placid surface of conference debate. Said Governor Hammill: "The era in which we are living presents a challenge to the men whom the people of this nation have placed in positions of high responsibility. Either they must do what needs to be done'... or they must make way for others who will." (Governor Hammill is a pronounced Lowden man.) Then Governor McMullen said...
...Governor Adam McMullen, Nebraska: "Governor Ritchie is a man of presidential timber." (Governor McMullen is a Republican; Governor Ritchie, a Democrat...
...ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix all earthly doings. By judicious use of Biblical excerpts Bible Students have "established" that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," have governed human affairs. Cosmos I is assumed to have begun with Adam and ended with the Flood, at 4128 B. C. Its duration was 1,656 years. Cosmos II is assumed to have begun with the Flood and ended with the War, at 1914. Its duration was 6,042 years. Cosmos III is assumed to have begun with...
...Adelaide. A little jazz, they thought, might assist digestion; and at worst there would be the weather report and a bedtime tale. Suddenly, as Station 5-CL came in on loud speakers and head phones, the digestion of numerous listeners was upset by a shock so powerful that Adam's apples bounded in male throats and robust women clutched at their hearts...
Damon Runyon (sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm around him, like you would do with the lad at home, and say to him: 'Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be scart, these folks are just trying to let you know they're glad...