Word: therefrom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...
...likely to cause the loss of those who are by nature and training best fitted to remain for a longer stay in University Hall. Nothing could be more unfortunate than that some man eager and able to continue in the Dean's Office should be prevented therefrom by the bogie of custom. The fact that the custom bids fair to arise more from inadvertence than design can only increase the regret that its effects may at some time become injurious...
...irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation. Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress the Harvard football news. And even if he could, it is by no means certain that Harvard would benefit therefrom...
...certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Alabama seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that Alfred E. Smith received 12 votes for President and Joseph T. Robinson received 12 votes for Vice President...
...Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton won out at least temporarily...