Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction he had followed coming home down the coast last summer...
...sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such...
...mechanics of allotting more than twenty million Federal dollars to Pennsylvania's $65,000.000 public-works program, and it was established that Little Matt so far has bid low on about $13,000,000 worth of those contracts. From the Governor's side of the gutter, Chairman Kelly demanded and obtained a WPA investigation of his charges that Boss Guffey bosses State WPA voters. Replied Senator Guffey, "I have nothing to do with WPA. The way Jack Kelly is squealing he must have a couple of splinters between his toes." Announced Chairman Kelly: "When I open...
...change. Sculptor Schlag's was no ordinary nickel, but a prize-winning plaster design for a new issue to be minted this fall, replacing the Buffalo-Indian head, which has lived its minimum statutory life of 25 years. The 1938 nickel will have on its heads side the profile of Thomas Jefferson, on its tails side his Monticello, Va. home. Schlag's design was chosen by Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross, Sculptors Heinz Warneke, Albert Stewart, Sidney Waugh from 390 designs which showed Jefferson standing, sitting, amused, grim, spindly, fat, and Monticello from all angles...
...Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture has no material effect on the thrips. Mr. Friedenberg suggested that university courses in scientific journalism would work on the side of prose v. jargon...