Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate last fortnight and the House last week was an amendment whereby Presidential changes in departments made under the new law could be nullified by a Congressional majority instead of by a two-thirds vote. The letter stated that the President would "in the overwhelming majority of cases go along with carefully considered Congressional action," but that the amendment was faulty on Constitutional grounds, since "a resolution cannot repeal Executive action taken in pursuance...
...striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway in the north, blocking Japanese reinforcements & supplies and all week Japanese bombers flew over their isolated posts dropping food & munitions. At week's end the Japanese were reported hurrying reinforcements north from the Shanghai area and south from Yenchow to relieve their...
...square of the distance, he had the key to the orbits of the planets, and what looked like the key to the operation of the whole universe. The universe, in operation, was a multitude of masses acting instantaneously on one another at a distance-the forces being exerted along straight lines connecting the masses...
...General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sells about everything else, decided that this was the time to go into the life insurance business. He formed Hercules Life Insurance Co. and applied to the court for the contract to reinsure National Life's 112,000 policyholders. Along with the 112,000 policies, he got the 11,050 shares of Continental Illinois...
...broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story along, wastes no words as he makes Captain Hornblower a hero, follows him brisky to defeat and to prison from which, presumably, another fast-moving story will be required to free...