Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has done no better than his predecessor in assembling facts and figures on the extent of joblessness. Last year the Administration got the House to appropriate $7,540,000 for hiring 105,000 canvassers to take a census of the unemployed around election time (TIME, June 18). Screaming mad at this possible use of public funds to hire 105,000 Democratic campaign workers, Republican Senators succeeded in killing the House bill...
...Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked at the three-foot rents in the earth and whooped, "the devil's laugh...
Died. A beggar whom police identified as the brother of the late Grigoriy Efimovich ("Mad Monk") Rasputin; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Tomsk, Siberia...
...this description of Copey's teaching sounds a little mad, all I can says is that by the conventional rules it was mad, as genius is so often mad. But in these personal bouts, which were his substitute for pedagogy, miracles were occasionally performed that have placed him among the very great teachers of our time...
...since, dear Alice," continued the Mad Hatter, "unemployment is, then that's one thing we won't be able to do anything with...