Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit with perfect equanimity that within a few years we will be only 50,000,000 whereas the Germans will be 80,000,000!" summed up Orator Mussolini, with a certain ambiguity for a peace speech. "But the Germans will not be on one but on ten frontiers, among which the Italian is the frontier between two friendly peoples-an intangible frontier...
...that men are honest. Thus the employer keeps his promise, within a "thousandth of a per cent" to pay his employes. Employers, manufacturers, retailers, tenants, banks, even "soulless" corporations and installment buyers-all these, says Author Scherman, pay their financial promises within one and one-half per cent of perfect...
Senator Norris sternly questioned the motives behind the King-Bridges proposal for an investigation. "I am just as anxious as any man on earth," he shouted, "to expose any evil, if there is an evil. .... In perfect fairness I would say to the Senator I would just as lief Willkie should be on the committee as the Senator from New Hampshire. ... He hates the TVA." Senator Norris had proposed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. But to many Congressmen the idea of one group of Roosevelt appointees sitting in judgment on another looked, despite the sincerity of George Norris...
...Toby Wing was more choosy. Mentioning the name of a prominent Senior, she said, "Harvard men are such perfect gentlemen." When asked about Harvard indifference she admitted with a smile, "I think I've heard...
...elementary and secondary education. The two reasons given for the government splurge are that the states are helpless and that the present average educational service shows "glaring inequalities" and in certain states is "below the minimum necessary for the preservation of democratic institutions." The plan, then, is perfect except for the means by which the government intends to dispose of the appropriations. For to leave their control to state educational commissions is to invite mishandling of money which needs to be well-spent...