Word: render
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that his son, now the ninth Duke, "will not spend his money to purchase unnecessary collections," but will "take care of his properties and the welfare of his tenants." Two young Danes, Neils Ventegodt and Emil Ullskov, both of the Viking Club of Copenhagen...
...seemed to be some color in that familiar word as pronounced last week by William Dubilier, President of the Dubilier Condenser & Radio Corporation of New York. He contended that the perfection of short-wave radio devices, by definition consumptive of less power and hence of less capital, would soon render "the million-dollar high-power radio-broadcasting stations obsolete." Sailing for Europe, Manufacturer Dubilier took with him low-power radio equipment which he estimated as requiring 1/4,000 the power of such long-wave stations as KDKA (Pittsburgh), WJZ (New York), KPO (San Francisco), CFCA (Toronto...
Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...
...this Nation believe in their Constitution, but they do not understand the justice of Senate rules under which, at times, one senator exercises a power greater than the veto power granted by the Constitution to the President of the United States; under which, at times, one senator can render the Senate impotent, and under which secret legislative barter is encouraged, which not only modifies the due course of legislative processes, but legislation itself." Almost simultaneously with the making of Mr. Dawes' speech, appeared Senator Moses' "reply"-an article in The Saturday Evening Post. His remarks were more discursive...
...today, in spite of 'Jonahs,' we are able to present to the world a solid structure, not built on clouds, but founded on a rock of solid realities. Reduction of armaments is not yet achieved, but an important step has been made toward it. Let us render thanks to the League of Nations...