Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast off by his family. In Arabia, where the Sherif is considered a mental case, none was surprised when the King's police presently announced, after grilling six and killing one of the followers of Abdul Hamid, that he had merely dreamed up a fantastic scheme of regicide after losing a lawsuit over some land in which the King was interested...
Although the scheme has not had time to prove its mettle, it does satisfy a crying need which was once supplied by the now illegal commercial tutoring schools. The guidance which will be given to the Freshmen will help them get the hang of studying for a difficult examination rather than have them spend useless hours of reading unimportant details...
...value of the property; 3) business assets, plant and machinery will bear a compulsory premium of 1½% of their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar worth up to $2,000 and additional personal property worth up to $6,000 upon payment of a premium...
...objection to his scheme the President had anticipated. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1933 developed a mighty assemblage of opponents to the Seaway-shippers, economists, railroad men, representatives of the Port of New Orleans-speaking for interests that would be injured, or thought they would be injured, if the Seaway went through. And New York State's utilities had fought the Seaway from the start. Said the President: "Selfish interests will tell you that I am cloaking this great project in national defense in order to gain an objective which has always been dear...
...scheme was still only a scheme, in spite of the President's determined words. There was bound to be a hot time in Congress when the Seaway came up before it, next session. Public opinion might stop the plan, as it had stopped the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Or, like