Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand women in an organization so far without a membership drive are modest beside Mrs. Peabody's twelve million strong for reform. In spite of this apparent one-sidedness, a poll in women's colleges would furnish more vital statistics as to where this body of public opinion might swing in the future and would produce more interest in the unbiased survey of the Prohibition question...
...regarded, by a majority, as reliable (even in the matter of figures). A preponderance of your readers are grossly un informed on the point of the total strength, just now, of the military forces of this nation. The movement looking toward a reduction of Naval armaments is in full swing. By such a gross misstatement of the strength of the country's Navy many well-meaning persons would feel that material reduction should be effected. By a proper knowledge of the actual strength of the Navy a more mature and reasonable judgment could be formed by these same persons...
...plain truth is that Labor cannot afford to waste time and energy now in a standing battle with the Lords, even though victory is certain. With the naval parley now in full swing it would be folly to turn aside for the mere purpose of thrashing a Tory majority in the House of Lords...
...Secretary Wilbur, Representative Swing wrote: "Congress intended that the people should get the benefit of this great public resource, through their own agencies, direct and at cost, without the necessity of paying a commission to a go-between, that is, profits to a private power corporation...
...mind of the student the importance of the part that his four years in college plays in acquiring the proper perspective toward his work in after-life. While a strict commercial training is as little to be desired as the exclusive program of "making contracts," the pendulum should swing more to a middle ground...