Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offering a brief for Federal adoption or promotion of the pool plan of conservation introduced last spring in the Seminole, Okla., field (TIME, May 23). James A. Veasey, counsel for the Carter Oil Co. at Tulsa, Okla., submitted that, though the industry is now overproduced and demoralized, it can right itself; Federal control would be unconstitutional...
...about it, but "if it be applied to Mexico it means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism, as that term is usually conceived-I want none of it. If it be conceived in a spirit of responsibility to high American ideals and standards, I want...
Then August Frey jumped up and dusted off his clothes. In a cheery voice, a little ashamed, a little flustered, he cried: "It's all right, driver! I'm not hurt...
...driver jumped down, ran over to Frey, shouted: "Oh, it's all right is it? Well I don't think it is!" punched August Frey's nose so hard that August Frey fell flat again...
...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...