Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked at the clock behind the Chief Justice and saw that it was within two or three minutes of the hour when the Court would rise, and he concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...
...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...
Chicagoans awoke one morning last week to find that 512,740 of their number had elected William Hale Thompson as Mayor...
...Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers," and float faithfully along with...
...through some strange quirk of French law she is in reality married to him. He accommodatingly marries her and clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx and even Harlem that they no longer intrigue the U. S. playgoer...