Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soften the inevitable shock of saddling his colt President Roosevelt called in the White House newshawks for an explanation of his budget. Each had to go to the Treasury, sign his name to an oath of absolute secrecy before he was handed a copy of the President's budget message, a copy of the 900-page budget. Then the correspondents hurried up the street to the White House Offices, were received by the President with Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell, one at each elbow. For an hour the newshawks were allowed to ask all the foolish questions they...
...President to ask his fellow citizens to give him such a sum for disposal as he saw fit was without precedent. To most citizens, however, it did not come as a shock. Most of them would undoubtedly prefer to trust him, rather than Congress, with $4,000,000,000. What made that one casually sensational sentence historic was that, if Congress gives the President what he wants, the centre of authority in the U. S. will shift far from the point where it has reposed for a century and a half. In the long range picture no other part...
...farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final estimates of the 1934 harvest. Production of field crops was 32% below the average for the past ten years but prices were up 42% from last year, 140% from 1932. Farm value of field crops was $4,800,000,000 as against $4,100,000,000 last year...
While the standard piece of equipment to be carried along on the expedition is a stationary bicycle upon which the members will take their daily workouts, much attention is also being paid to the shock proof packing cases which must preserve the bottles and other breakables vital to the entire research...
...vivacity. She is excessively reticent about her early life. She was born in New York City about 30 years ago, had a comfortable bourgeois childhood and developed an urge to paint. She had a job in the daytime but attended night classes at the Art Student's League under shock-headed John Sloan. Fellow students remember her as the girl that solemnly writhed and grimaced while drawing. When John Sloan praised her work she thought he could not be a good teacher, left his class, disillusioned. Because she thought her paintings lacked form she studied movement and dancing. With...