Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bases of natural gifts and their separate training as leaders, or, to quote his own words, the "culling from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talents and virtue and . . . preparing it by education, at public expense, for the care of the public concerns. . . We hope to avail the State of these talents which nature has down as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated...
...Vagabond's hope that Harvard will avail herself of these opportunities for she can both teach much and learn much. Texas lies on the Gulf of Mexico and Massachusetts stares off at the Atlantic, but they are connected by those American traditions which went winding west in covered wagons...
...think subsequent events have proven him more nearly right than other-some of whom have called legislatures, passed "No Cotton Laws" based on 75% of the producing States doing the same. Texas then upsets the plans by passing a 30% acreage law, making the No Cotton Laws of no avail since there can be no 75% prohibition of cotton without Texas. Now nothing remains for the States with No Cotton Laws but to repeal and pass other laws, necessitating other special sessions of legislatures if anything is to be done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton...
...England lies trembling in the balance. Banks throughout America have no balance upon which to tremble. Short days ago the financial structure of Germany was undermined and the nation with her back to the wall stared over a bleak world. Empires, dominions, age hallowed institutions, and fair names avail nothing. No man can forget the greatness of these items...
...they were in 1921, in other words approximately the same percentage of reduction that the U. S. has made in its home forces. There can be no further reductions unless French security is guaranteed by the powers signing the disarmament agreement. "Nothing short of such assistance [political guarantees] will avail to reduce those differences between geographical situation and circumstances of the several countries which constitute the chief obstacle in the way of a simultaneous reduction of armaments...