Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the federal government alone. . . . Every effort of this character is an experiment. . . .
Not as a business venture but as a "public service" did Mr. Coolidge accept his new work. Wrote he to Darwin Pearl Kingsley, president of New York Life: "Believing that life insurance is the most effective instrumentality for the promotion of industry, saving and character ever devised, that a well...
"Trade between Canada and the United States is the greatest trade that exists between any two countries in the world [see p. n]. . . . We have the word of those in authority in the neighboring Republic that there are to be certain measures introduced at a special session of Congress. An...
Napoleon said the baton of a field marshal was hidden in the knapsack of every soldier. Leopold Stokowski, Little Corporal of orchestra directors, believes the baton of a conductor may be concealed in the sleeve of each and every man in his famed Philadelphia Orchestra. Following the resignations last week...
News of the resignation of Dean Nichols adds another indication of the temporary character of the office he has held for the past two years. That the tenure of this position should be for a short period not only is backed up by a growing precedent, but it would appear...