Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Purge's long-range plan - to create a national political machine for Roosevelt Liberalism to ride in 1940, ignoring the expense to Roosevelt prestige of a few de feats in 1938 - had so far got precisely nowhere. In the three prime Purge States, the machinery evolved to carry Mr. Camp in Georgia, Governor Johnston in South Carolina and Representative Lewis in Maryland, was proven ineffective. Against the machines of the Senators unPurged, and reinstalled for another six years, the Purge machinery can hardly be expected to nominate delegates to the Democratic national convention of 1940. To perpetuate his Liberal...
...Prescott, Ariz., where he lived at Fort Whipple for eleven years (5 to 16) while his father, an army bandmaster, was stationed there before the Spanish War, he jollied the home folks. Said he: "I got my vitality here in Arizona...
A.R.R.L. engineers concluded that he had listened for NBC's sound, had reached under the table to plug in his power supply for pictures. In withdrawing his hand he seemed to have brushed loose a high-voltage wire, got a shock which threw him to the floor. There the loose wire apparently completed the circuit to his earphones, may have carried through his head more than a full ampere of current...
...which thumbs have more to do than pull out plums, six-foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...
...chauffeur heard Corrigan say as the procession started for City Hall. When the welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...