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What was said in the cascade of oratory at the Congress of Industry had been said a thousand times at a thousand businessmen's conventions since the spring of 1933. For such convention orators Recovery had served only to bolster their spunk, sharpen their tongues. Their speeches were still awash with the same ponderous complaints, the same doleful predictions, the same solemn warnings...
...point on which constitutional lawyers sharpen their wits is whether a U. S. official is outside his country when he is aboard a U. S. vessel...
Having attended the University at a time when the elective system was in its first riotous stages of freedom and liberalism, he ardently defended the system of concentration and distribution requirements, saying: "We must arouse an educational appetite as well as sharpen the tools which...
...Plumas County, Calif., acquitted of murdering her Indian husband with an ax, Squaw Emma Elam told the judge she wanted her ax back. Given it, she asked the court to clean off the bloodstains, sharpen the blade. Said the judge, refusing her request: "Such crust...
...They are the five-finger exercises of art. They sharpen the artist's tools so that he can more effectively put over his message, for all art has a message even though the artist may not be able to put it into words...