Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week, back from vacation, the President suddenly summoned his congressional henchmen and told them to tear up all their scribblings and simply pass a measure empowering him to appoint a policy-making commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face...
Professor Tozzer gives all the lectures in the course and although he doesn't attempt to hold his listeners spell-bound he manages to keep the audience awake, which is more than some lecturers can boast. Slides, almost every week liven up the work, and make the students tear their hair when tested on them at the end of the year. If a man wants to become acquainted with the University Museum, which, by the way, is quite a fascinating morgue, the Museum Walks in Anthropology 1 will do the trick...
...Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took their place. The police used clubs...
...drinks nor swears. Even if pious Newfoundland's law did not forbid it, he would no more think of letting one of his "swilers" (sealers) crack a seal's skull on Sunday than he would think of failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three years after Appomattox he sailed out with the fleet from St. John...
...rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always...