Word: noon
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...gold standard and thus promised easier money in days to come; it also authorized the Treasury to inspect all closed banks and gradually reopen them with various guarantees of solvency. The only copy of the bill was rushed to the House as soon as it reconvened at noon Thursday, and after half an hour of debate, there came cries of "Vote! Vote!" That vote
...memorial service will be held for Thomas J. McDonnell, a fourth-year graduate student who was found dead last month, in Memorial Church at noon on Tuesday, February...
...Wrestling vs. Nebraska, Wilkes College, W. New England, noon...
Ronald Reagan has been producer, director and star in the first act of one of the most extraordinary political dramas this nation has seen. At noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, with no special fanfare planned, the President completes a year in office, only one-fourth of his allotted term. The impact on Reagan of this first year is subtle, hard to detect by even those close to him. He tells more jokes than he used to, perhaps as a diversion from grim dilemmas and grimmer decisions. His infrequent secret moments may have lower depths than before...
Anyone who has ever spent some time on the Hill or in a federal agency will catch Fromson exaggerating left and right. For example, a housemate of the author describers her first day as a legislative intern: "I drafted legislation in the morning, lunched with the Senator at noon, and spent the afternoon in the Senate cloakroom counting votes with the lobbyists." The second day she probably argued a case before the Supreme Court, lectured the President on foreign policy, and climbed the Washington Monument...