Word: furnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating $30,000 to furnish the place, $25,000 per annum to maintain...
...qualify as an industrial policeman the law stipulates that a man be a citizen of the State, furnish a $2,000 bond, convince the Governor's office that he is of good character. However, the Governor is empowered to withdraw these commissions at any time without necessity of explanation...
Prices & the Public. Liquor prices, the Commission found, furnish a fair enforcement index. It reported: "There is significantly uniform evidence that while now and then the pressure of enforcement raises all prices for a time at some one spot, whiskey of good quality is obtainable substantially everywhere at prices not extravagant for persons of means...
...Congress set aside more wilderness areas, furnish one game warden for each national forest. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, the Committee's chairman, is himself a keen gunner and fisherman. With his two sons and four setters he shoots the fat quail of Virginia and South Carolina when he can get away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped...
...idiosyncrasies of American diction furnish a rich variety of also fronts. Around Cambridge certain students quickly assimilate a so-called Harvard accent along with class banners and Veritas shields. This dialect fortunately has no such widespread influence as the Oxonian, yet it does serve to stamp some Harvard men from Tampico to Timbuctoo. While the lingo of a telephone girl often prevents one from making embarrassing remarks to the wrong person, the Harvard accent has no significance beyond indicating that its possessor has got the wrong number...