Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Callers at the White House : Senator King of Utah, to urge the President to reiterate that the U. S. should join the World Court; Senator Borah, who came away saying that the President would be firm with debtor Europe; Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., to urge the President to apply the criminal law to Americans abroad who speak contrary to the Administration's determinations ; Negro Tom Lee of Memphis, who was commended by the President for having saved the lives of 32 persons at the recent sinking of the Mississippi River steamer Norman...
...comfortable chair and let the mind roam to the far reaches of a subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying machine, the telephone would never have come into being if the invention had not possessed, in addition to imagination, a firm, sure knowledge of the laws of mechanics...
...Paris, numerous alarmist reports were circulated, had the effect of warming up the Socialists to refuse a vote of confidence to the Government when Parliament should meet. Premier Paul Painlevé, however, took a firm stand from the beginning against the défaitists with the result that, when Parliament did meet, discussion of the Riff War was postponed. This was, in fact, equivalent to a vote of confidence...
...have been the roots and sap of human experience, treated not clinically but with a gracious hardihood. If it is in the romantic vein to regard fortitude and other sombre virtues as cultivable. Romanticist she is. But that distinction is unimportant. The great pity is that so painstaking, firm-handed a laborer has not yet the genius to discover native plants and feel them growing inevitably, of themselves...
Despite the thunderheads of feeling which have enveloped him during his remarkable career, the dispassionate observer has seen him as a just man and an individualist who has had the courage to follow his firm convictions. Like the misunderstood and, therefore, the much reviled Trimmers of the 17th Century, he has often championed the weaker and discredited side. His services have often gone to the poor and the unfortunate, while he has not infrequently bettered the example of Abraham Lincoln by actually pleading the cause of a guilty man in order that the law, intimidated by the howls...