Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penchant of the Guild for the unusual, one would suspect that "Parade, A Satirical Revue," conceals beneath its orthodox song and dance title something new and surprising in the line of musicals and this proves completely and satisfyingly the truth. Once the run-of-the-mill opening has been gotten over, "Parade" develops rapidly into a most unusual and refreshingly progressive undertaking...
...Couzens, for a $1,000 contribution to a girls' home. Enclosing a $2,500 check, the Senator pointedly replied: "I think you could do a lot more for girls and women by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they have gotten into trouble...
Back shot the testy little Virginian, mentioning no names: "I may say that whatever prestige, if any, I may have was not gotten by using my position as a member of the Banking & Currency Committee of either house of Congress to gamble in foreign exchange with a prison-convict partner nor in any attempt to influence the action of the Federal Reserve authorities for my own pecuniary benefit...
Balance comes from two Latin words "bis" (twice) and "lan" (plate or scale). Webster's Dictionary defines balance as the "state of equipoise between the weights in opposing scales . . equilibrium, steadiness, stability." How far we have gotten away from equilibrium, steadiness, and stability in governmental fiscal policy is abundantly and graphically indicated by the above figures. The phrase that a thing is of no more importance "than zeros on the war debt" might well be amended to "on the treasury deficit...
...have tended in the past, in trying to lay down principles to parents, to tell them that a child should or should not get freedom. So many controversial theories have gotten parents into a state of pandemonium. . . . You know the kind of bunk that's been handed out time and again...