Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another proof of the necessity of planning, and a lot of people laugh about all the planning that we are doing in Washington. In the long run, taking just flood prevention as one of many examples-in the long run, we will save hundreds of millions of dollars by planning for the future." In Bowling Green, he summoned up the spirit of the era of Roosevelt II: "You cannot compare the conditions of 1932 with the conditions of 1938. I sort of sense a deep understanding, a human happiness in the hearts and in the minds of the great majority...
...richly phrased opinions did much to broaden the interpretation of the Constitution so that Congress now may legislate within vastly widened bounds for what it considers the general good. With the balance of the Court now strongly "liberal," Franklin Roosevelt will lose no advantage in Cardozo's passing, save that to replace him adequately, the President must find not only another "liberal" but a "judicial evolutionist" of rare distinction...
...Lincoln's case, "a generation passed before the new unity became accepted." In Franklin Roosevelt's case, "it is another conflict, as fundamental as Lincoln's, fought not with glint of steel but with appeals to reason and justice on a thousand fronts-seeking to save for our common country opportunity and security for citizens in a free society. "We are near to winning this battle...
Main deterrent to escape is the difficulty of finding money to buy and outfit a canoe. A convict is able to make from 25 centimes (less than 1? to 1.5 francs a day, must save many years before he can hope to buy even enough food to last him on what is usually a ten or twelve-day open-ocean trip. Chief feature of a French sentence to Guiana is that it means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years...
...father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy, her father drafted her to play Juliet. With only three weeks' rehearsal in the part, she became an overnight rage, paid off Covent Garden's ?11,000 debt in a year. When a cholera plague shortly afterwards put Covent Garden in the red again...