Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restive unemployed. Last week he wanted to seize the Cuban Telephone Co., in which U. S. citizens own the greater part of an investment stake of $28,000,000, planted through International Telephone & Tele- graph which owns stock control. Nervous ministers warned President Mendieta that such confiscation would be rash indeed, but he relied on President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy and distaste for public utility companies...
...rash of half page U. S. Lines advertisements began to appear: "Because of America's better times, because of America's trend to American ships America's most famous liner S. S. Leviathan proudly sails for Europe June 9." Prospective passengers were asked to sign a clip coupon beginning: "I am a booster for the further development of the American Merchant Marine...
...Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson, made money...
...Bortz was talking specifically about the latest weight reducing drug, Dinitrophenol, which burns up fat by speeding the body's metabolic processes. In so doing it may also produce nausea, itching, rash. Taken in overlarge doses, it brings violent illness and death. A full study of the drug has not been completed, but it has been established that some people are especially sensitive to it. Last week Dr. Bortz advised doctors to test their patients for two weeks with extremely light doses...
...thus fall to get a true perspective of the examination as a whole. Harvard's plan, calling for an extra fifteen minutes for a leisurely perusal of the questions, should enable a student to organize what knowledge he has to the best of his ability, instead of beginning a rash attack on the first question without trying to perceive its possible relation to later questions. A quiet and sane outlook on the examination as a whole will enable the student better to understand what kind of answers the professor probably had in mind when he made out each individual question...