Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this situation there can, of course, be compromise. One sees no relatively important compromises worked out on the floor of the Council; perhaps both sides feel that they should not deal with the enemy in public. Eric H. Hanson, executive secretary of the CCA, and a regular observer of the Council in action, insists, however, that there have been frequent and important concessions by both sides paving the way for major steps. These seem to have been made informally in discussions between individual members and perhaps with the Mayor as mediator...
...position without moving until about 6 a.m.; whether he was asleep or not is not known, since the assistant was afraid to go look. Then Aalto stirred and began to draw with soft colored pencils until about 8 a.m. It was a magnificent rendering of the main floor plan and foretold a great building. He is a great architect...
...sentiment that caught up the President last week was attributable to the fact that he was among old friends and old memories. One other contributing fact: when he awoke in the sixth-floor suite of the Sunflower Hotel one morning, Dwight Eisenhower had turned 69 (b! Oct. 14, 1890). With Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, he became the third U.S. President to reach that age in office...
...Eating at the cafeteria is OUT; eating at the Metropolitan Club is IN, but it is inconceivable to refer to it as the Metropolitan instead of The Club. ¶Getting off the elevator at the fifth floor (where the Secretary of State's office is located) is IN; it does not matter if you work there...
Pick Your Yield. The one redeeming feature of the new law is that price supports are based on 90% of the average selling price on the open market of the last three years, with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible...