Word: discoverable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Supreme Court's Man. Herbert Hoover, on approaching the Presidency, cast about for an Attorney General who would meet three requirements: 1) a corking good lawyer; 2) a Protestant; 3) a Dry in whom Drys had complete confidence. Such a man was hard to find. In 1925 Secretary of...
"No real believer in Democracy questions the sureness of public judgment?if the public is given the truth. . . . We can sometimes speed up [truth's] production before the ill-informed awakes to his opportunities. Facts are bad for his digestion. . . . But the truth is hard to discover. It must be...
At North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Professor William Hand Browne examined his class in electrical engineering. Chagrined and grieved was he to discover, when he had graded all the papers, that the average mark of the class was 12½%.
When Columbus set sail to discover a new passage to India, one of the islands he touched upon was Haiti, then named Hispaniola. Little did he or the Spanish colonists who came after him realize what deep and ticklish problems this little island would present.
The present plans of this new society include a meeting of its directors, with beards, tomorrow to discuss the problem of the disposal of funds received from their hasty campaign to bring relief to the goodies." The philanthropists backing the organization, though maintaining as discreet a silence on their activities...