Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer has long been convinced that the real key to unemployment lies in encouragement of potential employers. The tactics of our legislative bodies, however, especially in the matter of additional depressing taxes which are being loaded on that group, remind me of a sheepherder I once saw trying to train a dog. He kept shouting "Come here, you so-and-so" while he threw rocks...
Since fear of Adolf Hitler drove France and Italy into each other's arms, it is no longer polite to remind Italians that French bombing planes from Corsica could be over Rome in less than an hour. Last week three of France's ablest pilots, North Atlantic Flyer Maurice Rossi, South Atlantic Flyer Jean Marmoz, one-time War Ace Paul Girardot, climbed to the controls of three Potez "56"' pursuit planes in Paris last week and took off with Air Minister General Victor Denain and other French officials for Rome...
...education in art, as currently merchanted by the professor, leaves one with the impression that art is an etherial spirit abiding in the empyrean, far from the vulgarities of matter. Mr. Laurie is professor of Chemistry to the Royal Academy of Arts, so it is his especial duty to remind the artist and his public of the limits beyond which painting cannot pass: canvas and pigment, for example. Such a reminder is helpful also for the amateur, who will find much to hold his interest even in the first part of Mr. Laurie's book, which deals with the kind...
...thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling is over, shows the war between a squad of G men and the Leggett gang, a war characterized by incidents which will remind audiences of the Union Station massacre in Kansas City, the unsuccessful attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul apartment and finally the siege of the Little Bohemia roadhouse which, as reenacted in G Men, has very different consequences from the death of an agent and the escape of Bandit...
...this table is a sort of experimental station to determine the most desirable system of lighting, there is no need to delay so long. All necessary tests could easily be made in two or three weeks at the beginning of the year. It should not be necessary to remind the library committee that the place for relics is in the Treasure Room...