Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Calvin Coolidge. whom he admired tremendously and whose frequent White House guest he was, he indulged in long intimate hours of what Senator Pat Harrison called "political mumblety-peg." Senator Fess was bitterly disappointed when President Coolidge refused to run for a third term, was more responsible than anyone else for keeping alive the "Draft Coolidge" movement. Having declared that "The Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City...
...likely to find it difficult to pitch to Mike Hovenanian. The midget, selected as a prospective leadoff man, won't offer at a ball unless it's right in the slot, and he's so small that the moundsmen haven't much of a target at which to peg...
...blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard. He signaled his orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went...
...thesia. Their Peiping Union Medical College training proved a splendid foundation and proficiency was rapidly obtained. One thousand and seventy-seven operations were performed under chloroform anesthesia with no immediate fatality or accident. The work was divided between the two operating tables, both functioning at the same time. . . . Artificial peg legs were made from wood, plaster, and leather at cost of less than...
...administration wants to accelerate the stabilization process and peg the dollar at the earliest possible moment. Just as soon as Congress gives the necessary authority to the President to confiscate the gold profit, then a devaluation policy may some day be suddenly announced. It probably will come within the next three months