Word: extractable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been frequently used in this connection, are, to put it mildly, as Mark Twain said of the reports of his own death, perhaps a trifle exaggerated. If, to quote an old English proverb: 'Soft words butter no parsnips,' neither are hard words milch cows from which we extract the milk of human kindness...
...Churchill was acutely conscious that the British taxpayer believes himself to have concluded a far too lenient tentative Anglo-French debt settlement with the wily M. Caillaux (TIME, Sept. 7, COMMONWEALTH). Ergo, Mr. Churchill was expected to obtain proportionately more from Italy than he had been able to extract* from France. Britons roughly figure the full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million pounds ($2,818,800,000) ; and considering that Britain is paying a total of $92,310,000 a year to the U. S., with nothing definitely in sight from France, Mr. Churchill undoubtedly...
...have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians and field in the archives of the department...
After this defiance Briand and Doumer were reported to have ensconced themselves in privacy and pondered well plans for "indirect taxation," which it is hoped will prove more acceptable to the Deputies and the electorate than M. Loucheur's scheme to extract eight billion francs a year from such direct and obnoxious sources as an increased tax on wine, tobacco and incomes...
...objection to the daily newspaper is that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...