Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been invited to create a temporary organization . . . to counter act the effect of the recent panic in the stockmarket. . . . The cure for such storms is action. . . . No movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
...such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...
Darwinism, says Julian Huxley, is not dead, as "irresponsible persons" think. Evolution-evidence "by now is overwhelming. Although we are very far from under-standing [how] . . . hens do develop from eggs. . . . The idea of Evolution is as important a biological tool as ... the microscope...
Though the arrow is exclusively a weapon, whereas the hatchet is primarily a tool, loyal Scouts raised a hearty cheer for "B. P.", saw him off in his new "Penny Rolls-Royce" (purchased from international Scout contributions of one penny each...
...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...