Word: se
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those problems as they have been, as it were, defined by the Constitution. For this reason, those who are primarily interested, not in law, but in politics, social ethics, and in government administration, are bound to dissappointment, while those who desire a knowledge of the law, per se, could ask for little more...
...persons who are being introduced to romantic poetry. But certainly more generalities and less minutiae are necessary. As a specific example, I object to devoting six lectures to the discussion of which came first, Hyperion or the Vision of Hyperion, and spending no time on the poems per se...
Most economists view R. F. C. as inflation?the creation of credit where credit did not exist before. But President Hoover, like many another man to whom words are good or bad per se, dislikes the word inflation, prefers to call his relief policies counter-deflation. Business and banking have been spinning in a downward spiral?bank runs, heavy sales of assets to keep liquid, reduced security values, more fear, more runs, more sales, still lower values. It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will...
Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...
...thousand miles away by a touch on a telegraph key. The speeding fire engine, the pursuing police patrol, or the fleeing armored car are alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment through careful planning; not to mention the acquisition of a competence and a certain Robin-Hood glamor and daring...