Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill's surviving are like the chances of an embryo oyster. Legislative name for this survival-of-the-fittest is "Gag Rule...
...Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle." More friendly Canadian...
...entrance to Leverett House there is an impressive tablet commemorating the Harvard men who fell in the War. In the hall, the other day, a blue-jacketed messenger boy was seen scratching his head in sore perpierity. Stopping one of the men, he queried, "Hey, bud, does Smith live in this here place...
...Borah of Idaho in Washington State on sneak-trip, says he has confidential assurances from White House there will be no central bank, and no inflationary moves with silver. Bill is very sore, blasting New Deal right and left. . . . Borah said confidentially that his private information was the Roosevelt speech to bankers was window-dressing; he claims 'Roosevelt has sold out to the money power.' Bankers here generally laugh at the Roosevelt speech, because they are stuffed with money and Government paper and are trying every way to make loans...
Many of the Harvard players have been examined, but no cases of the disease have turned up. The period before the fever can show itself will elapse on Sunday. Paul H. Means '17, Medical Adviser, has asked that men consider it an obligation to report immediately any sore throat, fever, or headache, symptoms of scarlet fever...