Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoys more than projecting himself into a large audience of respectful men and listening to his own assuring counsel. This is projecting himself far into the future and viewing himself retrospectively in the grandeur he will have assumed 100 years hence. In Washington last week the President made good use of his opportunity. From a beginning devoted to a historical picture of the New Deal as the logical modern flowering of a tradition in government set by Andrew Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleveland and Roosevelt I, the President adroitly proceeded to echo the remarks of his underlings on the subject...
...Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail...
...buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
...skiing that are just as bad as in football. In football you have a long conditioning period, and the men warm up before they have physical contact. While here in skiing, people drive up to the mountains or take "snow trains," and to get up the actual mountains they use a tow. Then without any limbering up they start their downhill run. When they fall, something snaps, and there's another candidate for Stillman Infirmary...
Soizing a ladder and pole kept on the bank by the metropolitan district commission for emergency use, the rescuers made their way out to the floundering youngster and pulled him up on the stronger ice to safety...