Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms imposed upon Germany at Versailles, the total shipping carrying the flag of the North German Lloyd was exactly one tender, a tender scarcely big enough to convey the baggage now aboard our new Bremen...
...have returned gentlemen, from the blackest spot on the continent of America. In that prison colony just sufficient food is served to keep the men strong enough to work tinder the tropical...
...Boyden report which read: "The man [Bishop Cannon] is clearly a hoarder . . . because he held flour in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...
...assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater to persons who still regarded $1,000,000 as a considerable sum and to corporations not yet large enough to be viewed with alarm by the Federal Trade Commission...
...third and outer blanket, the Heaviside layer, very little is known, and that only inferentially. Pressure 100 miles up is calculated to be 1/300,000 of the pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will...