Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. n, p. 51, alleged mention is made of the "better known" denominations that ordain women. The Baptists ordained one in 1882 and many since, and the Free Baptists ordained one in 1878. Aren't Baptists well known...
Issue of Nov.111, p. 60. "If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
From the vast sounding board that is the White House, headline after headline boomed last week across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
...Senate tariff war came to a complete halt last week. Feeling fatigued and futile, the warriors voted a truce (adjournment) before beginning the long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate. And whenever the Senate does finish fighting, the whole war must be refought in House-Senate conferences. Legislative forecasters declared no tariff bill would reach the President until next March?14 months after it was started by the House Ways & Means Committee...
...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...