Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinarily the President sends his message to Congress or addresses Congress in person on the second clay of the session. But this year there is reason to believe (See page 3) that Congress will not be ready to receive the President's message for one or two, perhaps several, days afterwards. The " spokesman at the White House" said that President Coolidge had not decided whether he would read his message in person or merely send the message to be read by the clerks of the two Houses. The practice of reading messages in person has been followed by only...
...Omaha, Roy M. Harrop, President of the American Economic League, held a conference of the "People's Progressive Party," which endorsed Henry Ford for President, and announced it would send delegates to the Ford-for-President Convention in Detroit...
...lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same. The deliberate consciousness of Americans so fair and smooth-spoken, and the under consciousness so devilish...
...francs; but since that is only $60,000 in American money, Pierre Wertheimer, owner of the outstanding French three-year-old, Epinard, will come to America next month to make a side bet with Owner Sinclair, so that the latter may feel it to be worth his while to send Zev over the water. Other countries in the race will be Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France...
...operation of the set is simple -as it must be for a man piloting an airplane, who has to receive or send messages while continuing his trip. Throwing a switch and turning a large knob till an ammeter on the dashboard shows a maximum reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...