Word: thereof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enforcing competent standards of reporting and presenting the products thereof in a direct and forthright manner, regardless of the cobweb strands and musty rituals of the learned professions, TIME deserves wholehearted congratulations...
...York, like Boston, has taken thought for its soul, Evidently believing with Carlyle that the social hierarchy is based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...selling the glebe lands thereof to an enterprising Polish neighbor, Cooper is rather shocked to find that they are to form part of the dowry which will place Manya (Anna Sten) forever in the boorishly legitimate embraces of Patigorski, a young Pole of the vicinage. He allows his wife to return to the giddy whirl alone, and remains to watch Manya trip across the hill each morning with the milk. Winter comes...
...wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation, the Government cannot justify its action by demonstrating that the increased wages are more than absorbed by increased profits flowing to the citizen as the result of operating his business under the illegal regulation thereof by the Government. If such is the law, then a benevolent despotism at Washington, D. C. can take charge of all business in this country...
...Following reports that the White House had asked Secretary Ickes to fire two of his right hand men-and denial thereof by the President-newshawks asked Mrs. Roosevelt whether she had made the request. She retorted: "I never would dream of asking either the resignation or discipline of any one. The running of departments is the business of the heads of those departments, and no pure outsider would have the slightest basis to ask any head of any department to do anything about his own people...