Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Navy Swanson transmitted the court's opinion to the Joint Congressional Committee which was to begin taking testimony this week. The Navy Department last week announced that the airship base at Sunnyvale, Calif, shall be named Moffett Field...
After the concert there will be a joint meeting of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society at which parts of the Brahms Requiem will be sung...
...culpability. This disaster is part of the price which must inevitably be paid in the development of any new and hazardous art. ... In spite of all the testimony the court has heard it would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold...
...detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt and his visiting statesmen would issue joint White House communiques about their talks. Like most communiques, these were more concealing than revealing. They dealt almost wholly in generalities. One told how President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had laid the basis of a "clearer understanding" on War Debts but, in the next breath, denied that "any plan or settlement...
...Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular meetings are given over to pleasant shop talk, the hilarious initiation of new members...