Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Choring similarly for Republicans, ex-President Hoover whose speeches this year have been larded with more than one lively wisecrack, retorted: "President Roosevelt said he would not let the people down. The time has come to let them...
Next, declared the President, must come Phase No. 5-housing for lower-middle families who can afford rooms between USHA's $5 maximum and FHA's $10 minimum. The President hoped that money to finance Housing in this field could be found among thousands of people with $1,000 or so to invest, small private capital brought into an enormous pool by a sure promise of 3% or 3½% interest...
...anti-aircraft defenses near public buildings, the distribution of millions of gas masks to the urban population. Suppose that six weeks later, with the crisis passed, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring confessed to Congress that the air-raid precautions had been so badly muddled that had war come, countless U. S. citizens would have needlessly been killed. Unquestionably the gravest sort of scandal would have followed...
...vast system of canals and waterways, linking its many rivers, providing cheap transportation in peace time and invaluable aid in war, when railroads are occupied with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr...
...crass outsiders label their school a country club. With a wave of the hand they point out the facts: Is not our law school one of the best in the country? And to Vag they said: Did not one of your own famed Harvard graduates of '37 choose to come here and study with his beautiful young wife these past two years? They speak the truth, Vag admits. Moreover, these lads can dish it out. They walloped their neighboring rivals, the University of Maryland. They can take it too. Columbia romped over them last week, and this week they...