Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education. For years he was chairman of the Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored U. S. participation in the World Court. In appearance he is red-faced, small (5 ft. 6 in.), a neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags...
...which is perfectly true. Then why are these men conspirators? They are conspirators because they have no loyalties; because their is the sword that knows no brother. The rise of Hitler to power in Nazi Germany provides a neat example of this and into the bargain shows what a double-edged sword it is that the armament makers wield...
...armorers, after all, are the true internationalists. Regardless of their nationalities, they work in concert at the two axioms of their trade--prolong wars, disturb peace. Between 1914 and 1918 they practiced constantly a neat practical way of prolonging...
...Riddle's pigeons laid golden eggs, all yolk with neither shell nor white, because he removed their thymus glands. Dr. Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract. Then Dr. Riddle turned another neat trick by giving sweetbread extract to his thymectomized pigeons, which promptly began to lay normal, shell eggs...
...when he asked for a trial without jury. For if there is one tradition that might well go by the board it is America's insistence on a jury trial. Juries have been hailed throughout the ages as the guardians of justice but people have lost sight of the neat little tricks that Father Time is only too glad to play. Since the time when the jury was created to give the defendant a break Father Time's sickle has done a lot of work. And one of the changes that has come about--improved methods of communication--has gone...