Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer pertinent to dwell upon the necessity for trained men in public life. Dozens of experiences that each of us have every day not only confirm in our own minds such a necessity but also many times prove to be a source of embarrassment mingled with shame over the fact that we have been so long in coming to the obvious realization. Young college men who are interested in politics and government, particularly public administration, are today interested in two main problems: first, what definite opportunity is there for trained men in government service today and what possibilities are there...
...tone of the 8-1 decision should permit the federal government to go far with its power program. That Chief Justice Hughes should dwell upon the authority of the government to dispose of constitutionally acquired property, augurs well for the government's hopes to compete with private business in fields where such competition harmonizes with the general welfare. The New Deal has been given immeasurable power according to the broadest implications of yesterday's decision, and one can only hope that the Roosevelt government will use it with greater sagacity than it has hitherto shown...
...autograph seeker interrupted the ex-champion's thoughts and when he returned it was to dwell on his pet hate, the newspapermen. "Why, in the old days if any writer had dared hint that a fight was fixed he'd have been run out of town, but today that's the first thing they think about. That's the trouble with these writers...
...evoked from Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson a bitter rebuttal which may well be a deciding factor in the saintly cause of Father Damien. Stevenson had visited Molokai, had talked with Brother Joseph, had found the colony even with its improvements "a pitiful place to visit and a Hell to dwell in." Flaming with indignation, Author Stevenson wrote Dr. Hyde...
Those who dwell in marble halls are not uniformly blessed. Last week in Boston Victor L. Chrisler of the National Bureau of Standards revealed that the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. are homesick for the good hearing that they enjoyed in their little vestibule of a courtroom in the Capitol. In their vast new marble chamber, in their vast new marble building, the acoustics are so poor that when Mr. Justice Roberts at one end of the bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear...