Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person who looks as if he might go to sleep in the first scene really does and imagines all sorts of things about the other characters. Often as this has been done in the movies, we can remember no like plot on the stage. The double drama of the main action; the suspense, the laugh, the further development that brings more suspense, then more laughter, is admirably managed.---Well, George M. Cohan wrote it, so we really don't need to analyze...
...instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which can be measured. These stars represent all the main types, from blue...
...doubt regarding the existence of the atom has disappeared, and all physicists believe in the main essentials of this picture of atomic structure. There are instruments which make it possible to count atoms with great accuracy...
...Federal Reserve System. Owing to their insistence, the Federal Reserve Board adopted resolutions sharply restricting branch banking activities of state banks now in the Reserve System, or those which may apply for membership in it. In general, branches are forbidden outside the cities or towns in which the main banking offices are established...
...Gifford Pinchot: "Sustaining my husband's position on prohibition, I addressed the members of the League for Political Education, at Town Hall, Manhattan. 'Regardless of what the women of Philadelphia or New York City may think,' said I, 'the women of the Main Streets of the villages throughout the United States are back of the enforcement of the law.' I said that I was opposed to the proposed 'equal rights' Amendment to the Federal Constitution (see page 4). 'Such a change,' said I, 'would nullify laws protecting women in many states...