Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late King Albert was pro-French to the core, but his son, the present young and earnest King Leopold III, has consistently appeased the Flemings. Against this rising Flemish tide the Walloons have become desperate. On the battlefield of Waterloo recently leading Walloon orators significantly spoke of ties with France, just as the Flemish Nationalists look toward The Netherlands. Never before in Belgium's history has the unity of the country been so threatened...
...Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt used to justify his attempted Court purge...
...shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
Even in the best of times it is not the easiest thing to reach eighty without a bundle of besetting doubts of Things as They Are and at least a modest core of downright skepticism. To have retained poise and serenity and faith against recent developments is an achievement of which Mr. Littauer may well be proud. Boston Transcript...
...their widely ballyhooed "Angels With Dirty Faces" Warner Brothers have cut through to the very core of things and emerged with one of those fundamental truths that can mould the future of the world: "Crime does not pay!" Unfortunately, the same will be found true of this picture...