Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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in the interest of accuracy, it should be mentioned that in recent years about one-tourth of this water has passed through the penstocks and turbines of the power plants on the American and Canadian shores and consequently did not "cascade over Niagara Falls."
The momentum of the fish hurtles it out of the water through the hole left by the banana. Quick as a note coming due, the fisherman plunges the banana back into the hole through which the fish has come, cutting off the only possible opening through which it could return...
>Of the President's revolving, self-liquidating Great White Rabbit of 1939 ($3,860,000,000 loan program), nothing was heard last week except a resolution put through the Senate by anti-Roosevelt Senator Byrd of Virginia, asking the Treasury to itemize some $8,000,000,000 of extra...
Although they are ingratiating and talented enough players, with (by now) merely piquant accents, the first half of their revue was lumbering and slow. Following Viennese custom, they included one long, serious number - an allegory that chugs back through history making as many stops as a milk train. Their advisers...
One of the big trees in the Federal forest is the contention that when Arthur Vining Davis organized Aluminium Ltd. in 1928, he had no intention of making it a competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum...