Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry the Insull scheme as unsightly, the du Pont plan as preservation of natural beauty. The du Pont-Insull fight thus tended to become .an inter-party beauty contest...
...pitchers wouldn't like the scheme. Even if they hit only once in six trips to the plate they have a human desire to crack something. They want to get back at the other pitcher for all the hits that have whistled past their ears. Although the proposal does not prevent the pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from...
...Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...
...explain negligence on the part of upperclassmen. Not even this loophole is allowed Freshmen for they are required to take some form of exercise at least twice a week. The apparent paternalism on the part of the authorities is easily excusable in view of the novelty of a scheme involving a dovetailing of a graduate school and the Y. M. C. A. Such gentle urging as may be included in a two-a-week requirement will do much to establish a beaten path to a strange door, which once found will be reached in subsequent years through the automatic agency...
...that time, thousands of Confederate bonds were daily bought and sold on the London stock exchange. Mouth watering, Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before...