Word: regain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleges that its only opponents are Communists, internationalists, pacifists. Socialists and Jews. You have to know something of the origins of this Hitler movement to understand it for what it really is -a sinister, well-planned conspiracy on the part of the former ruling classes of Germany to regain the power they lost when they lost...
...that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left eye, even today, is being used less and less continually. Man's binocular and stereoscopic visions are being destroyed-the price he pays for his speech center. The great cyclopean eye, however, will regain stereoscopic vision by developing two maculae [spots of sharpest vision] in the one eye, just in the fashion in which many birds have stereoscopic vision in each eye now. Although the field of view will then be narrower than now the eye will probably be both microscopic and telescopic; it will...
...from Labor we would have double the number of newly employed. . . . The battle hymns of such gentlemen as Mr. Lund and Mr. Harriman have little place in the picture today. They sound too much like the alarm drums of special privilege, aroused by the determination of a nation to regain mastery over itself and to establish industrial freedom as a companion to our political freedom." Such shadow-boxing was only a foretaste of the A. F. of L. convention at which President Green was primed to denounce all those who dared to block Labor's advance as enemies...
...Holmes's version of last spring's boardroom battle and a list of his good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders' committee, asking for proxies for a special stockholders' meeting in October. Mr. Holmes swore that he was not trying to regain the Texaco throne but only desired election of twelve additional directors. Mr. Holmes openly protested that Texaco had too long been dominated by the Lapham family who had three of the 13 seats - John H. ("Jack") Lapham and his cousin Henry G. Lapham and a Lapham nominee. Albert Rockwell. Seven directors...
...club has recently received word that it was awarded third place in the annual Loening Intercollegiate Flying Club contest, having lost by a narrow margin to the clubs from William and Mary College and the University of Michigan. Strenuous efforts will be made during the year to regain the Loening trophy, which Harvard has frequently held in the past...