Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stagnation, Earth does not appear to be growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...Franklin Roosevelt's press conference declaration for centralized Federal control of business (TIME, June 10) would somehow make them a cracker jack issue for 1936. On one of his cross-country pilgrimages to Republican shrines, Herbert Clark Hoover snatched at it like a starving man snatching at a crust of bread. At Des Moines, in his native Iowa, he asked the graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure air of liberty in the spirit of the Bill of Rights?" Then, whisk, and the Hoover motor car flashed into Illinois and up the driveway...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...
...having the crust to be so rowdy...
...Plumas County, Calif., acquitted of murdering her Indian husband with an ax, Squaw Emma Elam told the judge she wanted her ax back. Given it, she asked the court to clean off the bloodstains, sharpen the blade. Said the judge, refusing her request: "Such crust...