Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the debate raged as one after another, the 35 amendments to the Underwood Bill were acted upon. Mr. Underwood intimated that he believed a mild sort of filibuster was going on in order that the opponents of his bill might gain time to rally their forces and, perhaps, in order to keep the Postal Pay Bill off the floor for a similar reason...
...Blister" or "Bulge" is a device resorted to in remodeling older ships to protect them from torpedo, mine or bomb explosions alongside. In new ships many watertight bulkheads keep the ship afloat in such a case. In older ships, by building a sort of outer hull (the "blister" or "bulge") outside the regular hull, a similar protection is achieved...
From Washington, D.C, came a letter from ex-Ambassador Jusserand of France, telling Smith of Pierre the Citizen rather than of Poet Pierre, favorite of the Muse. Wrote M. Jusserand: "His relations were of a dual sort, strangely contrasted. Being a court poet ... he was in duty bound to praise the monarchs. . . . But what is out of the common is that, when he had performed this duty ... he resumed his right of free speech as a citizen to say to those men, who 'were men like ourselves,' he thought, and 'who happen to have been born kings,' what were their...
...Edgar P. Hill of Philadelphia lamented modern modes in U. S. education. Said he: "We are missing the mark. We are on a sort of merry-go-round. We are in motion and there is plenty of excitement and jazz music, but we are getting nowhere...
...artists of the two staffs are not all the same men but they are the same sort of men. An endless parade of enchanting creatures appears on the covers ? Harrison Fisher girls, W. T. Benda girls; an endless company of interestingly dressed and undressed lovers and haters pant, clutch, embrace, struggle, strike, stare, pose or sit pensive and forlorn...