Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor to dramatize the Relief issue, Representative Keller of Illinois brought a display of WPA rations, a pitiably small pile of butter, prunes, etc., representing what one Reliefer gets in a week. He asked: "What would you do if you had to live on that...
...duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice he succeeded. Last week, noting that the negotiations seemed hopelessly stalled, Green & Co. compelled Chairman Thomas and his committee to set a date-April 11, soon enough to take testimony, get the amendments on the Senate floor for action...
With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently...
Hours later, Antoine sat down on the floor, rested his back against the wall. The little girl was still alive. The younger doctor was treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...