Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Where Senator McKinley (Dry) is fighting with Frank L. Smith (Dry) for the Republican nomination on the World Court issue; and George Brennan, the Democratic leader, whose one plank like Mr. Vare's is Wetness, hopes...
Died. Edward Plank, 51, famed left-handed baseball pitcher, one-time (1901-1914) of the Philadelphia Athletics; at Gettysburg, Pa., of a stroke of paralysis affecting his whole left side...
Inasmuch as the offence which led the Senate to cut off the twenty-fifth president from the ranks of his loyal men, namely his attack on the unlimited power of the Supreme Court, has been a perennial progressive plank, there is little doubt that the appointee's conservatism has alienated the insurgents. It is also quite probable that the Democrats, who are still nursing their wrath at the remarks directed at them by the White House spokesman, will be glad to take advantage of this opportunity to revenge themselves upon the Administration. With prospects of facting the same unholy alliance...
...soon evident that the hole was cut in one of the upper corners of a chamber of almost unparallelled size. The long yellow shafts of the lights could hardly penetrate the dark to the bottom. Only the glint of gold could be distinguished. A sort of "plank" could be made out across the top of sarcophagus. On the plank was inscribed in golden hieroglyphics, the name "Sneferu...
Persons having a serious desire to govern their actions by intelligence rather than emotion have a right to ask such questions. Can it be that the political platform which so long dedicated a plank to the conception of an international court contemplated a court to which we would never have to submit a case? We have such a court now in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and to it we have submitted four substantial controversies. Would we submit any more cases to a court over whose composition for years to come we would probably have no say? If this...