Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elect him. Now we're fighting Horner. ... I don't want anything I'm telling you here to get in the newspapers. ... I admire the man who declares his religion. Why I would kiss the Cardinal's ring at State and Madison Streets at broad noon. I'm proud of being a Catholic but religion has no place in a campaign...
...John Campbell Merriam, 66, geologist, paleontologist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; the American Institute's gold medal; for discoveries in paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead...
Having thoroughly studied U. S. investment trusts and being a stockholder in some, I consider the flippant, finger-snapping attitude of TIME in reporting so unintelligently on this broad and complex subject to be inexcusable effrontery...
...Senate bill would apply not only to all lobbyists at the Capitol but to those who appear similarly before all branches of the Government. The House bill, less broad though in some respects stricter, requires the registration of all organizations seeking to influence legislation or the election of Federal officeholders (except actual political committees)*; the registration of every person employed as a lobbyist together with reports every three months of his employers' names, all his salaries and fees, all his expenses of $10 or more, the names of all newspapers and periodicals "in which he had caused...
...sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad. In at least three places there was less than four feet of water between Queen Mary's keel and the river...