Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert Nelson Haugen, a sincere, likable old politician, who was reared in Wisconsin and rose in Iowa. He never had much education, has doubtless gone further than his father thought he would. He has never permitted either his ambitions or insidious urban barbers to run away with his rural idea of a proper tonsure...
...spoke there listened 240 Senators, divided into six groups as follows: 1) the 4 Archdukes, by hereditary right;* and 34 representatives of the old Hungarian nobility, by election from that class; 2) 80 representatives of urban and rural councils, elected for five year terms; 3) 30 representatives of the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths; 4) high dignitaries of the State, Judiciary, Army; 5) 40 Senators elected by Chambers of Commerce, Chambers of Agriculture, and representing "Big Business"; 6) 40 appointees nominated by the Cabinet and appointed by the Regent...
...repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive bag ? of bones. The spectacle is on the order...
...Rural "Persuader...
Lieutenant-Commander. Richard Byrd declared in regard to this statement, It is foolish for anyone to say that aviation is not valuable. The value of quicker transportation, to mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...