Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aguinaldo plan: 1) immediate freedom for the islands; 2) five years for the U. S. to withdraw all its trappings of sovereignty; 3) ten years more of free trade between the U. S. and the Philippines. The ex-insurrecto predicted that independence would not sink the islands economically, that sheer native gratitude for freedom would win U. S. capital better than it now gets. Aguinaldo wants to come to the U. S. to help fight for independence before Congress but Congress sits only in winter and the Filipino cannot stand cold weather...
...Germany . . . by a larger fleet . . . will bring the British to their senses through sheer fright! . . . England! Uncle! A most charming fellow, this King Edward VII! Ineffable cheek! Pharisee! Rot! Twaddle! Bunkum! Hurrah, we've caught the English scoundrels out this time...
...crazy post-War years of inflation, Dr. Brüning moved with the Catholic Centre from staunch Imperialism to staunch Republicanism. Six years ago his party put him into the Reichstag. There his sheer erudition made him valuable to politicians who needed to ask questions before talking about budgets and such...
...course, the question of who should be admitted to residence. Education cannot make scholars out of hoboes or active leaders out of pedants. At present a man can come here by accumulating fifteen points on "old-plan" examinations that have been spread out over a long period of time: sheer memory work will get him to college. Or he can come if he passes four "new-plan" examinations, or by standing well up in his class at the secondary school. In other words, a man who has done his work at school as most boys do can drop into Harvard...
Appalled by the sheer cruelty which would be necessary to market the 1931 world wheat surplus now, the U. S. and Canadian Governments are trying by pool operations to support the world price of wheat, and with some success, though at great cost. This action, this holding back, has made it easier for nations which are not holding back to jump in and sell their wheat. They are selling cheap, but not so cheap as they would have to sell if the U. S. and Canada were not holding back. Picturesquely last week Sam McKelvie barked (for the special benefit...