Word: headed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the night a 23-year-old farm hand hit his uncle over the head. His aged grandmother called out "What's the matter with you two boys?" So he killed...
Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...Franklin Roosevelt a liberal? Few could agree whether he is or not. But nobody doubted that he prized the liberal label; fortnight ago he defined a radical as a man standing on his head, a conservative as a man standing still, a reactionary as a man going backwards, a liberal as a man who used his legs, hands and head. No liberal could agree with such a crude distinction, but liberals would look pretty foolish denying that they were people who used their legs, hands and head...
Meantime Canada's air industry, too, will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen on his business record (president, Northern Electric Co. of Canada) as just the right sort of wealthy, urbane, widely acquainted executive to do a Dominion...
About 30 men reported for Varsity basketball practice in the Indoor Athletic Building Wednesday night. The candidate will work out every evening from 7:30 to 9 o'clock under the direction of Head Coach Wes Fesler until after the Yale football game. After that practices will be held in the afternoon...