Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...
...wreckage in which seasoned Pilot Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro and nine other persons perished (TIME, Feb. 22). They looked in the cockpit and there lay the simple evidence: Co-Pilot De Cesaro's microphone jammed in the V-shaped well at the base of the control column, bent and crushed as by heavy pressure. Reconstructing the tragedy, the investigators could see Pilot Thompson making his banked turn over the Bay; the microphone falling off its hook unnoticed; Pilot Thompson pulling back on his stick to bring the ship's nose up after...
...Court adopted a principle, said Landis, which threatens to paralyze legislative action and the popular will, "If a law is fair, reasonable, and necessary, it is constitutional," the Court declared. "But if it is unreasonable or irrational, it is unconstitutional." In other words the Justices base their decisions concerning constitutionality upon their personal opinions, not the Constitution...
...present Sam Merrill, Exeter third sacker last year, is playing the same position on the first lineup; Fred Mc-Pherson is holding down the short grass, Bill Thomas second base, and Charlie Lutz first. Bill Wood, former shortstop and hard hitting Belmont Hill captain, is being groomed for a first base berth...
...underneath." Phenomenal indeed was Mr. Williams' observance of this principle. By 1924 he had spent $2,072,000 to increase his holdings to 104,671 of Central States' 109,038 outstanding common shares, a 96% interest and complete voting control. As shares in the utilities at the base of his pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between 1924 and 1929 the common was split...