Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have long become accustomed to such inane handling of things pertaining to this country by schoolma'am writers and Hollywood movie producers, but had thought TIME dry behind the ears. Now that you are off to a good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the yarn in question, there are plenty of other farmers in Alaska who have taken the same rap without bothering to shift their quid to discuss it. And 35 below is practically corn-growing weather...
...Professional scholars" aren't worth their salt as long as they keep everything they learn to themselves. They need somebody to "put the stuff over...
...Washington: Artist, ardent leftist and Eskimo-lover, tall, long-jawed Rockwell Kent, who designed this year's National Tuberculosis Association Christmas seals; Harold Ickes; Norman Davis, Red Cross head; James Farley; Henry Morgenthau...
...Capitol Hill, in two scenes: 1) in Mr. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee, where a new tax bill is drafted; 2) in Mr. Harrison's Finance Committee, where it is polished up. Act III takes place at the nearest Internal Revenue Bureau office, with citizens waiting in long lines to pay increased taxes...
When a dusty copy of the will of T. Jefferson Coolidge came to light last spring, the Corporation discovered that for forty years it had been mistaken about that document. Instead of establishing an unrestricted fund to encourage debating, as had long been supposed, the will provided that the sum was to be entirely devoted to prizes for outstanding debaters. The Corporation promptly enforced this provision, and the Harvard University Debating Council found itself penniless...