Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever he decided, insisted Mr. Ickes last week, let no one think he pictured the office as a springboard to the White House. "It might also.'' he said, "be used as an exit...
...work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...
...third act is excellent. Here the shades of the past make their exit; here Captain Dale's will is read to his survivors--here, called away by those who went before him, he begs forgiveness for the weakness of his latter years...
...meet me at the station, but I ducked it. Before the game I told the coaches that fighting would mean no 15 yards, but out of the game for the players. We started, and after a couple of minutes, two fackles squared off. My assistants moved toward the exit--they were used to the game--and the crowd milled from the stands...
Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...