Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part in a filibuster yet. I've spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest Feb. 10 as a date to vote. I want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule, was in the chair, and Mr. Borah exclaimed...
...Doumer scheme rests squarely upon the single principle of "indirect taxation" (taxes to be paid in the form of a disagreeable little stamp every time anybody buys anything): the 3,800,000,000-franc "taxes on business transactions." Such taxation is relatively easy to enforce, and of course sure to be extremely unpopular. Hence the virtual "impossibility" of getting it voted. The Cartel measure is a much tinkered proposal. It sets out to scrap M. Doumer's unpopular "indirect taxation"; and proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable...
Wisconsin is at the moment planning a reorganization of its curricular and advisory systems. Dr. Meiklejohn will take his chair next month. He is sure to be asked to insert his liberal finger into the pedagogical pie, at least to the extent of describing changes he recommended and sought to introduce at Amherst, changes which were thought too revolutionary by the Amherst trustees and which necessitated his resignation as Amherst president in 1923. His incumbency at Wisconsin again postpones the advent of the "ideal college" which Dr. Meiklejohn hopes some day to found (TIME...
...deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers, in literary taste, good manners, music, history, civics, composition, penmanship, drawing, art appreciation, safety methods. At the end, Superintendent McAndrew declared himself well satisfied. He felt sure the pupils were learning the things expected of them by their parents and the taxpaying public. His seven appraisers shared his view-appraisers drawn from city clubs, the Association of Commerce, the postoffice. Soon, declared Superintendent McAndrew, another sampling day will be held, including a ladleful of pupils from...
There is, to be sure, one "Ballade of the South Seas" which in its initial stanzas gives every promise of being a chaming and polished poem, and whose envoi turns out to be the epitome of quintessential vulgarity. It is as though the author had originally written the poem for his own pleasure and had later altered it to suit the demands of a comie supplement. Why the Lampoon editors should insists that verses be "humorous" rather than possible and well-turned is more than we can understand...