Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perspiring Governor Earl Long, with the January primary election on his mind, was certain they could think of plenty. And this week began on a weird note: it appeared certain that valuable oil deposits had been struck on the newly seeded campus...
...doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
...early days of TVA, Wendell Willkie managed to wangle an agreement by which C. & S. interchanged power with TVA, was free from TVA competition in certain areas. It expired in 1937. Meanwhile, TVA covered the valley. Towns were encouraged to build or buy city-owned distributing plants with Government money. TVA transmission lines foliated alongside and over private lines with cheap power, made possible in part at least because TVA paid no taxes,* operated under a rubber capital structure, even sent out its mail postage-free...
Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
Like a good deal else in the Mussolini family life, there is no specific date for Edda's birth. She was said to be 19 at the time of her marriage; that would make her 28 or 29 now. It is virtually certain that Edda, whoever her mother was, was born out of wedlock. Socialist Mussolini, an extreme anticlerical, would scarcely have permitted himself a church wedding, and civil weddings were practically unheard of. Besides, it was common knowledge, until at least 1920, that Benito and Rachele had never bothered to go through a marriage ceremony. A romantic story...