Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time that the plaster started falling, a careful examination was made, and the supervisor put his official O. K. on the building. But when a couple of mere ceilings caved in, the examiners made them...
Your choice of the Man of the Year reveals an astonishing lack of perspective. You have overlooked the real men of the year for the mere pawn of lesser men, an impotent, historically insignificant tribal ruler. The article itself is uncritical, unTIMEly and bombastic...
Fremstad's voice showed occasional wear & tear, but when she left the Metropolitan in 1914 her star was high. Manager Giulo Gatti-Casazza invited her to return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
...which there is a power of legislative regulation. But manifestly no justification for it can be found unless as an integral part of such regulation. The action cannot be wrested out of its setting, denominated an excise for raising revenue and legalized by ignoring its purpose as a mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end." In short, there are bona fide taxes and pseudo taxes. Bona fide taxes, imposed to raise money, are constitutional under Congress' power to raise revenue. Pseudo taxes, imposed for purposes of regulation rather than for the purpose of raising money, are constitutional...
...done so much to throw a steady flow of monkey wrenches into their works. But after all, if industry had managed to get a steady flow of monkey wrenches, it's only fair that agriculture should have them too. Justice is a consideration far higher, and more important than mere economic reasoning...