Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attack. As Mr. Hawley's chief Democratic opponent, Minority Leader Garner took the House floor all abluster to attack, not so much the new bill as the prospective Republican method of putting it through the House under a "gag rule." This method he called "legislative cowardice." He described Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson as "yellow, legislatively speaking" for fearing a "handful of Democrats." The "most vicious proposal" he could find related to its valuation system...
Last week the name of Zinoviev appeared in headlines for the first time in nearly a year. Josef Stalin, Soviet Dictator, allowed Comrade Zinoviev to sign a long article in the Moscow Pravda attacking Berlin's Chief of Police Zoergiebel...
...model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue-spectacled Dictator listened to flattering, impassioned pleadings. At length he relented, partially. No, he would never be President again, not he, but he would remain Commander-in-Chief of the Army, if that would please his people...
Objects of Observation. There were two chief purposes which motivated the scientists who carried huge pieces of apparatus including two telescopes over 60 ft. long to the tiny spots where observations were possible: 1) To study the "Einstein effect" - to determine the amount which the light rays of stars are deflected in passing close to the sun; 2) To study the nature of the sun by taking pictures of its corona and outer layers...
...situation of which was not made public. Helium, which is almost as light as hydrogen, has the great advantage of being non-inflammable. But, rare, it is expensive (about $35 per 1,000 cu. ft.). It is found mixed with natural gas. Hitherto there have been but two chief U. S. helium sources: 1) the Federal well at Amarillo, Tex.,? which yields 1.75% of helium; 2) Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., which yields 2.4% of helium...