Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used as a red herring by some of the New Deal opponents." ¶ Senator Vandenberg of Michigan: "I do not see where he can find his 'Charlie McCarthy' with personal power enough to stand any show of perpetuating the dynasty. So, as a jovial precedent-breaker, I expect him to try himself." ¶ Senator Holt of West Virginia: "I am sure that those who supported the La Follette anti-third-term resolution during the Coolidge Administration will be very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist Norman (William Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt...
...Secretary on one day promoted 2,000 army officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha's pen stroke will cost the British taxpayer $1,800.000 additional the first year in increased officers' pay, later $3,000,000 annually. Under the new regulations "all reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives on a pension of about...
...Louis is, of course, a Negro but not a darky. I expect Mr. Louis would much rather be dubbed "nigger," than darky. The word "nigger" dees mean something; darky is nothing at all. . . My dear father was at Shiloh with General Grant April...
...cream freezer is a seething furnace. The utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect to. Nevertheless, researches in cryogenics (low tempera ture) are important to the study of entropy, which is defined as the degree of randomness or lack of organization in the energy distribution of a closed system. The third law of thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy...
...second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...