Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baiting such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
...hard to understand why such an actual problem of outstanding legal importance was chosen in the school where the case system was first developed for the teaching of law. The brilliant results that are now predicated with such methods are fully attested by the attention experienced lawyers give a straw trial argued by students in the Harvard Law School. Whatever may be the ever increasing allegations of the impracticality of the colleges, the methods of the graduate schools, and even more, the desire of leading firms to secure the alumni, make such charges against them impossible. And the fact that...
...prone to believe, however, that those who own remaining drawings by Turner would feel a very real regret at the loss of the bulk of the artist's work, in spite of the pecuniary advantage to themselves. They will undoubtedly cling with anxiety to the straw of hope held out by experts that perhaps the major part of the Tate collection was not destroyed...
Health officials in New York have now declared that the subway is immoral. To the dwellers in the wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems...
...sweeping approval of the Alternative Prayer Book. Triumphant, the Primate of All England and other Lords Spiritual moved over to the gallery of the House of Commons. Although they could not address its members, their three-to-one victory in the Lords was surely a straw vote of promising import...