Word: marvellous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless, this is what is done every day by persons who cat hamburgers, apples, dried fruits, and many other foods. Bichloride of mercury may be a fine...
...conference of New England colleges and New England industries, described elsewhere in this paper, do not indicate any great change in the commercial growth of the country. Instead of being alarmed at the fact that "almost half of the New England graduates" seek employment elsewhere, they should actually marvel at the fact that this small section of the United States manages to keep within its borders such an unduly large proportion of the young men educated in its colleges...
...hevn't, guess we'll make ye say something.' So they went away and lied copiously. . . ." He speaks of the U. S.'s "obedient and instructed Press," of the "overwhelming vacuity of the national life," of the U. S.-Canadian border: "And always the marvel-to which the Canadians seemed insensible-was that on one side of an imaginary line should be Safety, Law, Honor and Obedience, and on the other, frank brutal decivilization." But Theodore Roosevelt he liked...
...Marvel." When Senator Ashurst rose last week in the Senate, he was interrupted by Senator Bailey of North Carolina who asked whether Mr. Ashurst did not say after the Supreme Court's NIRA decision that among the "unjust criticisms" leveled at the President was the charge that he intended to enlarge the Court. Senator Ashurst at that time said: "A more ridiculous, absurd and unjust criticism of a President was never made. No person whose opinion is respected has favored attempting such a reckless theory and policy...
...inconsistency and in spite of his ponderous eloquence, Senator Ashurst succeeded in driving home one point which many opponents of the President's proposal ignored. Said he: "That bill is the mildest of all the bills that could have been introduced on the subject and I marvel, in the present circumstances, at the moderation of the President. . . . His proposal does not tinker with the Constitution. . . . There is nothing in the bill that in any way restricts the Supreme Court acting as it has in the past...