Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that James E. Watson of Indiana could ever become President of the U. S. But politics is like baseball. Getting men on bases is what counts. A base on balls is as good as a clean single if there is a home-run slugger in the lineup. The total runs, not the hits, win the game. In the Republican league, James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good friend, Charles Gates Dawes. Therefore, James E. Watson, small of eye, large of stomach, quick...
That all U. S. sea trade, plus 25 billions of U. S. foreign investments (not counting Government loans to the Allies), gives a grand total close to 45 billions...
That is, a total of 43 cruisers. The U. S. Navy already has 18 cruisers. The first item on the Navy's shopping list was therefore 25 cruisers.* The other proposed additions were: 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, 5 aircraft carriers. Calculations for these added auxiliaries were evolved on the 18-battleship scale and also with the idea of properly equipping the two outer zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging...
...William Blackstone, 18th Century English jurist, called it: "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world...
Love Me and the World Is Mine exhibits a bafflingly total naivete, a gay and unblushing sentimentality such as appears often in fairy tales but seldom in cinema. Agnes Thule, the youngest, hence the last, hence the ultimate Thule, falls in love with one Captain Von Vigilati, as does he with Agnes. Caught kissing, she is turned out of doors by the Thules, pere et mere. Then she goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts...