Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million-and-a-half pleasure craft, of which some 400,000 are motor boats, dot the waters of the U. S. Because of increased leisure and the creation of large artificial lakes as a result of Federal dam-building, the U. S. brotherhood of pleasure boatmen has expanded considerably in the past two years...
...capacity to govern," he not only provided invaluable raw material for the Court's most vocal critics, but also exposed in crystalline form a fundamental weakness in what was then the attitude of a majority of his colleagues. Reflection of his views, and a program for the future creation of a more tolerant sort of legal mind, are to be found in Dean Landis' most recent annual report...
...tape and impede rather than facilitate smooth functioning. The New Deal may be justly criticized for an unfortunate tangling of bureaus, but certain of the new boards of the government are equally as justly to be praised, as necessary expansions in a widening sphere. Harvard's new creation of a Dean of the University may also be praised as a justified expansion of administrative agencies...
...Pathe's stockholders accused its president of breaking the French law against forming dummy companies. Following year Pathe was declared bankrupt, whereupon M. Tanenzapf's connection with the company ended. Last spring Paris courts approved prosecution of M. Tanenzapf on a charge of "fraudulent creation of a fictitious majority" in Pathe stock, opened his books to a stockholders' committee, whose pryings uncovered the evidence for last fortnight's arrest...
...quickly picked up the thread of his comments on his hostess' art collection. When a few minutes later she asked how he felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with little effort, he memorized Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress...