Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School Committee, scored in a recent statement, was the new Fire Station which is now being erected on the plot of ground between the Yard and Memorial Hall, the site of the Old Rogers Building. Lynch cited this structure which will cost $250,000 as an example of the flagrant wastefulness and graft of the Mayor and City Council...
...relative merits of secondary sources are inexcusable. When Mr. Cooper states that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
...objections to such a plan are numerous. The undertaking of public works for the sole purpose of "creating" employment is liable to lead to the flagrant waste of public funds. In Germany where public money appropriated to increase employment was expended on parks and elaborate housing improvements instead of on other things which were much more essential to a war-ridden, debt-burdened country, there is a striking example of this misdirection of public wealth. It is a truism in economics that such schemes as that proposed by the Democratic Committee of the Senate for the undertaking of public enterprises...
...Department of Labor as a strike-breaking weapon in the hands of the mill-owners that is the crux of this situation. It is against this, and the particularly flagrant use of it in this case,--the holding of Miss Berkman for seven months without ball as a punitive measure,--that the Liberal Club's protest is lodged. By Miss Berkman's activity, the National Textile Workers' Union had conducted a vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose...
...into motion-picture advertising. It is filled with such lines as, 'you will never forget this picture as long as you live' and 'this is New York's greatest thrill.' Such promises not only weaken the force of your advertising but in addition are the grossest and most flagrant sort of lies...