Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wailing notes sweep the stars into one tear of pity for her breaking heart. But no answer comes. ... If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie. .. . Nature is not a cheat and Life is not a flirtation. Our hope for immortality cannot be a colossal joke...
...annual sounding-off time, Groesbeck tossed out his idea. He said: ". . . The objectives of both Government and the utilities must be with the widest possible use of electric service at the lowest possible cost. . . . The achievement of this end and the solution of the existing problems of competition lie in ... the coordinated use of the existing generatmg and transmission facilities of both " Two months ago the New York Power Authority (planning exploitation of the St Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their report...
...have no doubt that there is oil in Antarctica. . . . Who knows but what our future reservoirs of oil and coal . . . lie waiting for us at the bottom of the world...
...length the House voted, and the President's men won, 226 to 160. The conference report then arrived in the Senate for final approval. It had to lie untouched for hours while its foes used up time debating the Relief act, which also had to be finished that day. It was dinner time before Senator Wagner, in charge of the money bill, could bring...
...rebuttal: "We are told that our motives are to isolate Germany . . . Germany is isolating herself and doing it most successfully and completely. . . . The last thing we desire is to see the individual German man or woman or child suffering privations; but if they do so the fault does not lie with us ... for any day it can be ended by a policy of cooperation. ... I come next to Lebensraum [living space]. ... It can only be solved by ... adjusting and improving . . . relations with other countries abroad. [But it is] impossible to negotiate with a Government whose responsible spokesmen brand a friendly...