Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgust of discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
...same mass as the electron but an opposite charge. Physicists then saw that if they could add to their collection a particle heavy like the proton but negatively charged, and a particle light like the electron but not charged at all like the neutron, they would have a neat array of pairs and triplets, as follows...
...last three or four lions responded to a cue from outside the bars, wheeled and sped toward the runway leading to their own cages. The crowd that packed Manhattan's cavernous Hippodrome one night last week was up in its seats, streaming toward the exits past the array of jabbering freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried...
...such array of talent or of enthusiasm could the President muster on his side. The best he had were Hugo LaFayette Black, Alben Barkley, Sherman Minton, Henry Ashurst, Robert La Follette. From these the level of enthusiasm and ability fell rapidly away. His reliable wheel horses Robinson, Harrison, Byrnes and others were still true, but their attitude indicated that at heart they were no more than lukewarm. Not yet forgotten was the promise of the Democratic platform, made last summer, that if the aims of the New Deal could not be accomplished within the Constitution an amendment would be proposed...
...showed it to the long array of Congressmen who called on him at his office, to Andrew Mellon who presented the U. S. with $19,000,000 worth of Old Masters (see p. 41), to the diplomats of 50 nations who came to shake his hand at the first state reception of the season, even to the members of the Panama Canal Tolls Commission who came to talk shop with him. But most of all he showed his New Year form to newshawks who came to his press conference. He was bursting with things to tell, and spoke with...