Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain, Irish Free State, Turkey, Norway, Greece were other complainants. Notably absent from the list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result...
...Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member ... 25 members of Congress . . . Governors of five states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist of the U. S. Department of Commerce, declared...
...Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there...
...wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body to Chicago, gets into a fight with his other son, who happens to be his fireman. While they are milling around the train is wrecked. Later there are backgrounds offering great chances for photography-the engine shops, a Mississippi flood-but they are presented so conveniently that their importance leaks out of the picture. Chaney redeems himself bringing a Red Cross train over tracks covered with water to a flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous...
Cousin Ramsay: "I say with all my heart that I associate myself absolutely with what the leader of the Opposition says about the great desirability of personal conference between those who bear the burden of state and those with whom they come in contact. But I will communicate to the honorable gentleman when I am in a position to make a definite statement as to what arrangements have been made...