Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mankind belongs to the order of Primates. There is no more reason for our being ashamed of our Northarctus ancestors (early Primates) than for the horse to be ashamed of Eohippus (early ancestral horse). In science we have no fear or shame, we merely survey facts open-mindedly. He shows slide of Northarctus, a fur covered monstrosity...
Said grateful Judge Davis: "If it is Constitutional, I am going to file an order here and now drafting you [for emergency service under the judicial retirement act] ... as long as life lasts...
...onslaughts during the Great Court Battle was a dignified letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, signed by Chief Justice Hughes and approved by Liberal Brandeis and Conservative Van Devanter. pointing out that while Justices may be old they are not necessarily slow, always leave their docket in apple-pie order. This year the Justices went off to pack for their vacations, having disposed of 1.012 cases, leaving 78 on the docket (compared to 65 last year) to be heard when they reconvene next October...
...worth of Minnesota WPA projects in a manner not always acceptable to Elmer A. Benson. Their bitterest clash took place last winter, when Administrator Christgau refused to appropriate $700,000 for a weed eradication project sponsored by the Governor. Last fortnight, WPA's high command issued an order summarily removing Mr. Christgau, appointing Roy C. Jacobson, WPA field representative, as Minnesota's acting WPAdministrator...
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of Nash's poetry is the novel way in which he obtains like sounds from very dissimilar words. He is not above making major orthographical changes in a word in order to achieve versification. He says, for example...