Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plank two will give the chairmen direct advisory power in the selection of appointive members to the Council. By the Constitution eight Councilmen are non-elective, nine elective...
Finally, the President of the Freshman Class will assume relations with the Council in the manner outlined for chairmen in plank one, and through the mediacy of the Council member in charge of Yardlings. For the submitting of business the Dean's office will be notified of all Council meetings in advance, as will the College through the CRIMSON notice column...
...constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated at $2,000,000 a year, to educate peasant children in rural schools run by Army officers. At least 100,000 peasants, to judge from...
When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...
...Neither the Republican platform's monetary plank nor Landon's telegram to the National Convention interpreting the Party's money declaration as meaning currency based on gold would preclude consideration of the silver problem...