Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multiplication of administrative agencies is the outstanding characteristic of our time. . . . The controversies within the range of administrative action may be different and extremely important, and they may call for a particular type of experience and special methods of inquiry, but the spirit which should animate that action . . . must be the spirit of the just judge...
...bombing squadrons were then realistically attacked by pursuit ships. The heaviest type of bombs used by Italian craft today in Spain were not dropped for Adolf Hitler, since their radius of destruction is so tremendous as to be risky in war games, but in a land display the Führer was treated to the dropping of a total of at least 100,000 pounds of "medium bombs," which made the earth tremble, blasted to smithereens large structures built to represent industrial plants and harbor works...
...invariably two-lobed and kidney-shaped. In the Cretaceous period, 100,000,000 years ago, the leaves almost invariably were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...
...None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest Brünnhilde and Isolde of her generation...
Although the ruling allows any sports team member to engage in athletics under its provisions, the interpretation is primarily made for varsity baseball players, who heretofore have been almost excluded from playing any type of organized baseball during the summer vacation while some other eastern colleges have permitted their players to tie up with all types of summer teams...