Word: remained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat...
...case of this 75th Congress. Never before have we had so many Copperheads-and you will remember it was the Copperheads who, in the days of the War Between the States, tried their best to make Lincoln and his Congress give up the fight, let the nation remain split in two and return to peace-peace at any price...
Observers guessed that the naval drive up the river would remain feeble simply because the Army was loath to support it. Japanese Army commanders have no desire to shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
...East's major conflict, Japan and China have neither broken off diplomatic relations nor declared war. Technically, Japan and China still remain "friendly" nations. Until last January a Japanese Ambassador remained in Hankow, until January Chinese Ambassador Hsu Shih-yin was at his Tokyo post. Even when Ambassador Hsu left, a Chinese charge d'affaires and the Embassy staff remained. Last week, however, even they departed...
...against a $24,000,000 net income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...