Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employment system is wrong from beginning to end. The snootiest people on God's green earth are to be found around the employment agencies run by the Federal Government. When a man asks them for a job they act as though they were doing you a favor just to let you make application...
...when Their Majesties alighted from the Royal Train at Liverpool. Hours before more than 1,000,000 subjects of King George had turned out to pack-jam the sidewalks under a sizzling sun. They roared and thundered an ovation which seemed unique even to the most popular sovereign on earth. All day long the crowds kept it up until the King simply had to tell his people how they had made him feel. He spoke to Lord Derby and Lord Derby spoke to Liverpool newshawks and Liverpool newshawks spoke to the world: "At the end of the day the King...
...beginning there was Muscle Shoals and Senator George W. Norris's conception of electricity as a great national resource not unlike water and the good earth. President Roosevelt looked at Muscle Shoals and saw much more than a fine opportunity to settle once & for all the hoary argument of whether Government or private corporations could distribute power the more cheaply. So the Tennessee Valley became a social and economic laboratory but power is still the big point of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In charge of all TVA's power activities and, though not its chairman, admittedly its prime...
...shall act as the Weihewart or Consecrator of this wedding," declared Professor Hauer, and proceeded to do so. While the bride and groom bent their heads and cameras clicked, the Weihewart read sonorously from a ritual book of Pagan devising: "Oh Mother Earth, from whom all love proceeds! And oh Father Heaven, who blesses with His light and weather! And all good Powers of the Air! May you rule over this man and this woman until their destinies are fulfilled...
...Offensive in spots" were Stand Up and Cheer, Shoot the Works (see col. 3), The Thin Man, The Constant Nymph, It Happened One Night, Tarzan and His Mate, We're Not Dressing, Little Miss Marker, As the Earth Turns...