Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
There was no attempt on the part of the Kremlin to suggest that any of the eight dead generals were Trotskyists. The charge was simply that they had sold information to a "foreign power." Japan and Germany are the only two powers conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...
...What method would you suggest as one of complete fairness to your profession concerning a system of appointees...
...each bumper crop (TIME, March 1). The President spoke day after the Federal Crop Reporting Board, having added up June 1 data from 40,000 farmers and field agents, released its estimates of the principal U. S. crops for 1937.* Most accurate to be had, the figures seemed to suggest that a cycle two years shorter than the Biblical one had entered its second phase and the time had come to apply the "Joseph" plan. After five lean years, U. S. husbandmen were assured not only of the biggest wheat crop since 1931 but of an export surplus in wheat...
...Grant gave him one and endowed it with 30,000 preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely to suggest that the Prime Minister had done this to repay a private debt. Correspondence between the Laborite and the Tycoon was produced showing that the Prime Minister had argued for the maintenance of "his simplicity of habit," that Grant had argued that the Prime Minister should "save his strength...