Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace lover attempted public auto-crucifixion last week, but in Manhattan the biggest, most active anti-war machine of its kind, the Emergency Peace Campaign, received from abroad its livest spark plug. Now almost a year old (TIME, March 16 et seq.), the E. P. C. announced that during January and February some 300 speakers, laymen and clergymen will talk for peace in 1,000 U. S. cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden...
Despite this plug for merit, the law's love for the status quo found reflection in a report of the committee on the "increasing number of governmental bureaus and boards." Declaimed Delaware Delegate James R. Morford: "We must guard in any proposed alteration of our inefficient political bureaucracy against the very real dangers which inhere in a non-political and efficient bureaucracy. One permanent threat to liberty is involved in the future development of civil service...
...poor palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked way of giving another course. Much more benefit can be derived from a tutorial system making an intensive study of problems springing from courses, than from a system which spreads a pitifully thin veneer of knowledge over the whole History...
...young nobleman had been in love with a U. S. newspaper girl named Ann Bannister, but their engagement was broken when he kissed her on the back of her neck. The trouble was, he had forgotten to take a lighted cigar from his mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening...
Last fortnight Motorman Chrysler & superintendent were summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal District Court to answer three charges: 1) failure to plug their repeating shotguns to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have Federal duck stamps on their hunting licenses; 3) shooting over a baited area (TIME, Oct. 26). Each offense was punishable by $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...