Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Pepper of Florida: "The third-term question is being used as a red herring by some of the New Deal opponents." ¶ Senator Vandenberg of Michigan: "I do not see where he can find his 'Charlie McCarthy' with personal power enough to stand any show of perpetuating the dynasty. So, as a jovial precedent-breaker, I expect him to try himself." ¶ Senator Holt of West Virginia: "I am sure that those who supported the La Follette anti-third-term resolution during the Coolidge Administration will be very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist...
Angola's small clannish German group, which constitutes, next to the Portuguese, the largest white population, built up a strong separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...
...recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer who first caught His Highness' eye four years ago in London when she was legging in the Grosvenor House floor show...
...would be necessary to exclude with scientific rigor the possibility of other reasons for the results. Rhine's opponents do not feel that he has excluded possible collusion, sensory cues or clerical mistakes in tabulation. It has been shown that under certain lighting conditions the ESP symbols show through the backs of the cards, and in some of the Rhine experiments the cards have not been screened from the view of the observer. Some scientists have criticized Dr. Rhine's probability mathematics; others declare that he has withheld some of his results from publication. Still others have tried...
...This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over the interpretation of facts, which is a potent stimulus to scientific progress. The Encyclopedia was rather to build bridges from one science to another, to show the unity of the scientific attitude, purpose and method. It was to be a scientific study of science - an encyclopedia of "Metascience." Says Dr. Neurath of his project: "[It] so aims to integrate the scientific disciplines, so to unify them, so to dovetail them together, that advances in one will...