Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue in 1840 and that Tyler was not a Democrat adopted by the Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude the idea that he had any "embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel in 1841. Your article challenges a comparison. Both Tyler and Lincoln were confronted with war when they took office. In 1841 the menacing factor was Great Britain, supported by France and Mexico. Had war ensued, the Union...
...Congressman before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish commanded Negro troops in the War. He likes Negroes and they like him. "His nomination is logical," said Committeeman Howard. "There are ten states . . . etc." Other G. O. Politicians put the Fish idea aside and let it simmer...
...have an idea which if put into effect might result in a 100 per cent increase in at least the number of subscribers to the Fund. In looking over the second annual report. I received two great surprises. In the first place, I must have neglected through oversight to contribute the second year, although I did the first. The second surprise was to observe the absence from the list of one of my closest friends while in College, a man who has made a great success, who lives at a great distance from me, but with whom my College friendship...
That the heart is a muscular organ squeezing the blood forth when it contracts, resting quietly when it relaxes or swells (a complete contradiction of the idea prevailing in the days of the Stuarts). That the arteries carry bright scarlet blood, which has taken up air in its passage through the lungs, to every part of the body...
Thousands of small speculators, who have been largely responsible for the three months hubbub in Wall Street, were last week seized with the same idea. Each of them suddenly became air-minded; each of them wanted to stow away, or play with, a few shares of air stock. True enough, they had played intermittently with air stocks since the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, but never as they did last week...