Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took two clerks to keep the 941 exhibits straight. After three months one of the two alter nate jurors died...
...University of Washington Book Store has been vending. But the manufacturers are reluctant to put the new arrangement on the general market, for the millions of typists throughout the land have been trained at the present keyboard and human habit is a vested interest which only tremendous efforts can alter...
...Inflation once started feeds upon itself and soon gets completely out of control. . . . This bill may well constitute the first step on the road to ruin. ... It is unthinkable that there should be vested in any individual the arbitrary power to alter at will the value of money. . . . Prices may rise, but they will rise as a result of fear not of confidence, and no permanent prosperity can be erected on any such base...
...despair, Ludmilla began to deceive him with an old lover. Truthful himself, for a long time he never suspected her, but was alarmed at her emotional capers, came to the conclusion that "Women now must alter their psychology, or die." To Sergei, Ludmilla's absolute dependence on someone else, her desire to fill his whole life, was completely immoral. When at last he discovered she had been deceiving him he was disgusted, relieved. He left her a note: "We belong to different worlds. Even so, you are the best of the women of the old world. But our very...
...Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated the Constitution when he issued an edict triumphantly read to Germans over the radio at 2 p. m. by Chancellor Adolf Hitler...