Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represent Thomas Becket healing pilgrims at a shrine. It was suggested at that time that the glass was removed from Canterbury Cathedral about 200 years ago, the supposition being that the man in charge of the glass at that time was more interested in the new style of eighteenth century glass than...
Other books: The Revolutionary Spirit in France and in America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times, Washington: Republican Aristocrat...
...repeal by executive proclamation new taxes voted in the Industrial Recovery Act upon restoration of business or repeal of eighteenth amendment...
Aside from repeal of the eighteenth amendment of rather the submission of the repeal to the States, the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act and a few other pieces of important legislation the record of the past Congress is reflected in the extraordinary powers granted the President. No other President has been given authority all comparable to that vested in President Roosevelt by the seventy-third Congress...
...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...