Word: treads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate will search out feature material, he will follow the scent that leads to strange places. He may tread close on Colonel Apted's heels as that doughty warrior sets out in pursuit of another skunk. Perhaps the opportunity of seeing the Lampoon's funnymen laying a hoax will come his way. He may see the way a police court functions, or follow the Fire Department in action. He may find that much of the imposing marble statuary that decorates Memorial Hall has come only recently from the graves of men portrayed, in the Mount Auburn Cemetery...
acts of Congress?" (1802) Chief Justice John Marshall: "To undertake here [in the Supreme Court] to inquire into the degree of ... necessity, would be ... to tread on legislative ground." (1819) Andrew Jackson: "When the laws undertake ... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society...
...sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what it will become, Seldes veils in a murky optimism...
...stand up straight and tread the turning mill...
Gratified and surprised was at least one TIME reader by TIME'S straightforward reporting on New York's milk troubles and its Pisecks (Sept. 14). Even farm papers tread gingerly about the edges of the current U. S. dairy muddle, view it with nothing more vigorous than plaintive editorials. Perfectly true had TIME chosen to mention it, is the fact that New York's conditions are typical of every major milk market. New England's producers are equally bitter but less vocal...