Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grass on which I lie is my floor...
...Square witnessed the other day an unusual example of one of the many ways in which members of a university benefit the community. Entering the store with half a dozen Wellesley and Radcliffe girls, a small dog proceeded to throw a fit which cast him all over the floor and his feminine companions into a corner...
...bogey rose again to haunt them after 218 Representatives had signed a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. First by a vote of 220-to-153, then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill has no more chance of passage in the House than anything in the world, and you can bet your bottom dollar on that...
...Congressman knew what it meant. It meant that WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins was going to get $1,425,000,000 to spend on relief in fiscal 1937 in just the way he will have spent about $1,600,000,000 this fiscal year. When the bill was brought to the floor, not more than 50 Representatives appeared to discuss...
...Pulsing nerve centre of all this excitement was the huge square of the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Thousands and thousands of eyes in the square were riveted on the buff-colored palace of Benito Mussolini. All along the roof torches flickered in the night air. On the second floor the huge windows were flung wide. The crowd in the square could look directly into the vast frescoed office of Il Duce, lighted up like a stage setting. Round the edge of the crowd the flash bulbs of photographers flickered like heat lightning...