Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary winter the District of Columbia has little snow, but snow had just fallen heavily in Washington. Gesturing dramatically toward the snow on the White House lawn, the President asked Mr. Adams how he had the heart to turn a million jobless men off into a desolation like that. It was a tough question to any man, a tougher question to ask a politician...
There the hillbillies and 37 other bands tooted in turn for five hours, and 10,000 school children raised their voices in chorus. At last Crooner O'Daniel stood up to take his inaugural oath as Governor...
Governor James's inaugural address told little of his plans. As an orthodox politician he is expected to turn out the Democratic rascals in droves, but for all Arthur James's talk of economy and of firing 1,000 surplus State employes, his House of Representatives, like George Earle's Legislature before it, immediately had to divert $12,000,000 from motor, liquor, insurance funds to finance relief...
...contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual instruction is submerged beneath a mass of competitive symbols and scholastic rigmarole. On the other hand, the effect is to turn the headmaster into an executive charged with the training of his students to pass college boards, not to enter college with a foundation of wide, well-integrated knowledge. Grooved by his responsibility to the boys' parents, he is apt to operate his school like a clothing store, fitting out each student...
...spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces 800,000,000 Ibs. a year, of which it exports over 500,000,000 Ibs., 62% of the world's tea exports-which, in turn, form 1% of total world trade...