Word: stoutest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finance committee should have authority to call upon the Treasury Department for tax reports of corporations to show how much profit they have been making under the present law. The Democrats rushed forward in a body, the Republican irregulars following on their heels. Against them only the stoutest Republicans rushed in. The consumer-tariff forces seized Tax Reports Village by 51 votes to 27. With their communication road thus opened, prompt ly the Democrats despatched 200 ammunition wagons for supplies, 200 requests for the tax reports of different corporations. Position. It remained for the leaders to choose their positions...
...characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...
When one is precipitated, however, from that generality to the welter of the specific, to fundamentalism is one's own family, to mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts wallow in a slough of despond. The transcendentalist had the happy faculty, which we unfortunately have not, of soaring over this mire from the cradle to the clouds...