Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. U. S. political history had seen few cases of such violent campaigning before convention time. Last autumn aggressive "Buster" Dewey charted every trip, speech he must make, every bigwig he must meet before June, allotted his days and nights, set up his staff of 30 researchers to gather the material at a cost of $3,000 a speech...
...original plan behind the H-Y-P Conference was to gather together interested undergraduates and public officials to discuss problems of contemporary politics. Prominent officials were invited to speak at dinners and informal round table discussions were held at which specific topics were aired...
...twelve-volume, 6,000-page bookshelf comprises all the knowledge that SEC has been able to gather about investment trusts in four years of study. It was assembled and mentally digested by Republican SECommissioner Robert E. Healy-onetime muckraker for the Federal Trade Commission-with the aid of 45 research workers, lawyers and statisticians. The bill which embodies their conclusions was drafted by SEC Attorney David Schenker, a 40-year-old, smart, cigar-masticating, witness-softening lawyer...
Scenes. North through this half-frozen Europe moved Sumner Welles and his staff of assistants. To U. S. watchers from afar, uncertain as to the object of his mission (although President Roosevelt had said that it was only to gather information), in doubt as to whom he could see, what he would hear, skeptical of what he could accomplish, the journey of Sumner Welles was less a continued story of diplomatic progress than a series of vivid scenes, puzzling as stills from a movie whose story is not known...
Later astronomers abandoned the nebular hypothesis. They found two things wrong with it: 1) it was unlikely that the rings would gather into planets; 2) the "angular momentum" was wrong. Angular momentum can be roughly defined as the amount of rotation in a system. In the solar system the planets have about 98% of the angular momentum, but only one-seventh of 1% of the solar system's mass, the rest being in the sun. The Laplace theory could not account for this discrepancy. It seemed more likely that there had been interference from outside...