Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three weeks of recess, this was a decision day. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, impressive as always, leaned forward, nodded to Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. Justice Rutledge read the Court's majority opinion-a routine case. The Chief Justice, his solid face impassive, swiftly read a brief dissent...
...apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through by the end of summer...
Wilmot and the less patient Laborites began to realize that socialism's clock had been a little fast. There was still plenty of fight left in the Tories. Before the Easter recess they won their first victory: Minister Wilmot announced that the Federation's special report, until then a cabinet secret, would be published...
...biggest boy I could find (6 ft. 1 in.), hit him as hard as I could, was sworn at, slapped him again, and stood my ground until he slunk off to tell the principal on me. That ended snowballing in the Wrong Place. I had to go out next recess into the field and throw snowballs, just to show I could take...
Completing its first extended tour since 1941, the Glee Club presented concerts at five New York and Pennsylvania colleges during the spring recess. The high lights of the tour after performances at Skidmore College, Elmira College, Ogontz Junior College, and Briareliff manor Junior College was a concert of Sacred Choral Music presented at Vassar with the Vassar College Choir...