Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians, President Hoover was induced to apply to a pushbutton in Washington the presidential digit, thereby giving to the presses in Muscatine the electrical juice necessary to induce motion, whereby inked rollers applied to paper aided still further the dissemination of Baker's notions and nostrums. . . . Somewhere, somehow, some secretary succeeded in precipitating the President of the United States into a situation that awaits explanations." Herbert Clark Hoover, engineer, was graduated from Stanford University in 1895 with an A. B. in Engineering. For 18 years he was engaged in applying the latest U. S. engineering methods in mines, railroads...
...Last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a warder from a Venezuelan leprosy settlement was horrified to discover an escaped case-of-leprosy who had somehow got himself sworn in as a policeman, was handling holiday crowds...
...start of this new generation. We can move swiftly after that. Why, today we think little of spending $700,000,000 annually on our two great arms of defense-yet it is with difficulty that we vote a twentieth part of that sum towards national health and national education. Somehow it is hard to 'sell' an intangible thing like protection of children, yet we 'buy' a $17,000,000 cruiser without raising an eyebrow...
...costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets out to work him over into conformity with standard design. But the professors, who have somehow an air of owning the institution and owning him--those, at least, he can defy...
...almost daily. Elizabeth's family disapproved of Gilbert from the beginning and tried to make him take his old job teaching at their boys' school. They thought it was a shame Elizabeth had to work, but admired her success, despised his failure. Then one of his novels somehow caught on. Thai nearly finished the occasionally-happy married life of Gilbert & Elizabeth. Success brought female admirers, one of whom went to Gilbert's head, left nothing much there, so far as Elizabeth could...