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Word: sends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Progressive Gerald Boileau managed to introduce an amendment outlawing benefit payments to farmers who, among other things, used converted cotton fields to graze cattle. Dairy farmers rose in strength against cotton farmers and the Boileau amendment was adopted 202-to-188. Then Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Farm First | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...formerly a careful observer might spend the larger part of a day in getting the same results. This method has now been adopted as standard practice in most metallurgical laboratories throughout the country. Dr. Greninger is also engaged in the study of the change of crystal structure in the send state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aiken Describes Developments In Metallurgy at University | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

Taking as his topic "High Altitude Flying by Airplane," Stevens, U. S. Army Air Corps, discused the future of stratosphere flying and its obstacles. He emphasized the fact that it was possible by means of superchargers, blowers designed to send compressed air to the engine, to fly higher than 100,000 feet, although at a height of 60,000 feet air density is one-eight that of sea level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENS LECTURES ON STRATOSPHERE FLYING | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Furthermore to help Captain Bertinatti, Waldensian pastor attached to the Italian Army in Ethiopia as chaplain, Mussolini invited hard-working Ernesto Comba, head of the Church and professor of systematic theology in the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, to send along another chaplain, a request with which the Moderator gladly complied since, said he, "there are thousands of evangelical Abyssinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waldenses | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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