Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part but gave no. immediate sign of retiring. Without reference to his own plans he proposed that the Democracy start the groundwork of its 1932 campaign at once. "The most glaring example of our lack of efficiency," he said, "is that, we allow a political organization to lie practically dormant over such a long period. ... I see no reason why we can't function right through the whole four years...
...last week, tire manufacturers took vigorous action to meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...
...disagreement between college and secondary school, which has been lying dormant since the short-lived up-heaval in February, received a fresh impetus Saturday, this time from the side of the schools. Doctor Edward Howard Griggs, in a speech to the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, reversed the old order with an attack of some violence on the colleges...
They were simple folk, the jurors, but all of them were able and accustomed to read newspapers. Justice Bailey saw to it this time that they were no collection of citizens so dormant that they had no knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these...
...that first provided for school courses in prohibition seems to have lain dormant in recent years. Perhaps when the nation took up the subject it was thought unnecessary to continue the study in schools. At all events, if it is true, as reported, that unofficial dry agents moved for its continuance, their pessimism must rival that of the man who were both suspenders and belt...