Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said Senator Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat : "There is such a thing as going too far." 2) In the case of the Shipping Board, repeated attempts have been made to reduce its operating expenses which were not long ago as high as $50,000,000 a year. Last year it got an appropriation of $30,000,000. This year it received...
Said N. J. State Geologist Henry B. Kummel: "It's all bunk. . . . There's no such thing as a successful machine to locate oil. If there were, it could be 'sold to Sinclair or Standard Oil for a million dollars in five minutes...
...been elected by the Liberal voters of Sicily who themselves had backed the Fascist ticket because he, Orlando, had backed it, and not because his constituents had any predictions for Fascism. The municipal election disproved Signor Orlando's contention and opponents averred that the only thing left for him to do was to resign...
...East there are still many who go to college because of athletics or social life or because it is 'the thing to do.' That does not obtain so much in the West. For instance, in one small Ohio college at which I lectured, 90% of the boy students were working their way through school...
...many Jews are there in the world? Some say one thing, others another. The American Jewish Yearbook put the total at $15,000,000; the estimate of one Treitsch is 17,000,000. Last week Jacob Lestchinsky (of Berlin) declared that the number...