Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Robinson might have saved his breath. In an election year the U. S. Senate would grant itself the benefit of any reasonable doubt. With Senators from the industrial Northeast voicing a footless "No," the farm bill was thumped through the Senate, 56-to-20, sent to the House...
...improvement in U. S. Steel and a $72,000,000 improvement in General Motors weighted this average heavily on the side of Recovery. The other 235 corporations showed an increase of about 28%. With good, bad and indifferent reports still to be filed, Standard Statistics took a long breath and figured that when all the returns were in the final result would be some 40% ahead of 1934 earnings. On this basis, earnings of the major U. S. companies would, roughly, swell from a little more than one billion to almost one and one half billion dollars. Recovery leaned...
...victim retaliated by charging several councilmen, including Jack Pool, with cheating. On the third day, after a grilling, he withdrew all charges. Suddenly President Pool rose, took a deep breath, announced that, along with all the members of a French class, he had cheated during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he demanded that he be made an exception. In shocked silence the council voted unanimously to suspend Jack Pool...
...Lord! this business doth chill my spine and I did wish the over with it lest I show my heart over much. Indeed, methinks the actor Hampden did employ the grand manner too much and unlike the little leaf which a breath of wind doth cause to fall, he did go down more like a log. But all in all this play did bring me great pleasure...
...Democratic administration. They may have the truth of the gospels, the forces of a juggernaut and still retain the savour of partisanship. However, when a party in power is criticized by a large proportion of its own makeup; when that attack is led without trace of self-advancement or breath of bitterness by a man versed in the ways of governing, a man of unquestioned integrity, then, that attack will strike home and leave its mark...