Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government's special counsel for investigating and prosecuting the oil scandals has apparently hit upon an entirely new tack. Behind closed portals in Washington, a Special Grand Jury was called to hear 16 witnesses, subpoenaed duces tecum (bring your books and papers). All that transpired was that the proceedings had nothing to do with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases. The witnesses were an entirely different group from that which was examined by the Senatorial Committees (TIME, May 12 et seq.). The new investigation is supposed to have something to do with the Mexia oil field in Texas...
Again, he departed on another tack...
...question of prohibition. As almost one-third of the entire population of Canada lives in Ontario, the outcome of the fight is not without moment to wets and drys alike. The Drys were reported to be preparing a desperate defense against the Wets, who were organizing a violent at tack on the Drys...
...closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, to illuminate the throat of an 8-months-old baby from which he extracted a tack...
...obvious reasons Germany is on the opposite tack. Classicism was never anything but a series of intellectual exercises in Germany. And Germany is too doubtful of the future to rely upon the past. The official departments (under the Constitution, the Reich has the power to make school laws for the states along general lines) plan the study of one foreign and one classical language and the preparation of children to face the practical problems of life in present-day Germany...