Word: pad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, Mr. Coolidge occasionally cribbed passages of geographical description from International Encyclopedia to pad his speeches...
Began one of the quietest debates in which a Cabinet was ever buried. Andre Tardieu, who had been Prime Minister of Cabinet No. 18, and was leading the attack on No. 19, merely sat with a pad and pencil in his hand, jotting little notes while his friends talked. Even Aristide Briand, whose intrigue was supposed to have brought down No. 18, and who told Chautemps whom to pick as Ministers for No. 19, did not speak. The leaders seemed to want the Chamber itself to speak decisively, if it could. Perhaps they knew it could not. By the meaningless...
...keeps Owen D. Young busy because of another quality which made him internationally invaluable at Paris: his sensitiveness to, his prescience of the Future. Never a technician, he is nonetheless obsessed with the idea that some day it may be possible to write a message on a pad at one's desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth. No trained artist, he has been stirred, by Radio Corp.'s development from a communications business into an amusement business, to ponder the potentialities of radio as the basis of a new national...