Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business . . . based on principles de structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred were in essence as follows: 1) Liquor - to give the States their choice between a) the present Federal Prohibition or b) manufacture and sale of liquor, not for private profit or public...
Some members of the Federation wanted to explain. But one old, wise lady, Mrs. Belle de Rivera, Founder and Honorary President of the Federation, made a request. She asked that in honor of her 84 years the incident be considered as closed and that nothing more be said on the subject. She acted just in time; no one made any personal remarks about Katie Smith...
...panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This limousine and many another gift did the Duke of Abruzzi bestow...
...system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from above the bone layer, we went half way up the cliff and arched in a hole about seven by ten feet. Then we removed the matrix down to the bones and chopped a ditch around a slab which measured...
...Debuts de l'Ecole Romantique," Professor Allard, Emerson...