Word: aver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wilfully, deliberately and viciously attempted to nullify the operation of the laws for the punishment of crime in the State of Virginia." Cried Representative Smith: "I do not contend that a judge may be impeached for an honest difference of opinion but I do aver and proclaim that a judge is impeachable who is either, first, so ignorant of the law as to be flagrantly incompetent or, second, who knowing the law, releases on the world a self-confessed murderer of the most vicious type." Stirred to immediate action the House voted (209-to-150) to have its Judiciary Committee...
...that keeps make-up editors tearing their hair and remaking their pages. And on this particular day all make-up editors had to think not only of their regular readers, but of a professional event of much importance-the third annual typographical competition in Philadelphia sponsored by N. W. Aver & Son advertising agency. The contest this year was to be based on issues of March 4. Editors of 1,386 dailies sent their papers of that day to Philadelphia...
...William Aver ell Harriman resigned as chairman of Aviation Corp. to devote more time to his chairmanship of Union Pacific Railroad. He was succeeded by Robert Lehman, 41, his classmate at Yale (1913), partner in Lehman Bros., second cousin of Herbert Lehman, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York...
...William Aver ell Harriman, 40. banker (Brown Bros., Harriman & Co.), poloist, was elected chairman of Illinois Central Railroad's executive committee. This marks the first entrance of Mr. Harriman into railroad management although he was recently made a director of Union Pacific, In the affairs of both Union Pacific and Illinois Central Mr. Harriman's father, the late Edward Henry Harriman, was dominant. Union Pacific has a 25% interest in Illinois Central...
...from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north." Author of Mathematical Magick...