Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclaimed he dramatically, 'how can you utter such words? To hie a railway has elements of sublimity. It is eloquent. It means progress...
Lloyd George. "O David of Manchester, reared in Wales . . . your strong point is that you believe everything you utter . . . at least at the moment when it rushes from your lips! . . . War-time is the very element in which men of your type flourish. . . . You feel yourself to be the redeemer of the island-empire. You consider every opponent a villain, and are convinced that no other genius ever produced such ideas as yours...
Germany. At Cologne the Rhine reached the highest flood mark in a century, 30 feet 4 inches above normal, and ferries always kept in reserve were totally unable to cope with the utter breakdown of transportation. The onetime U. S. Army of Occupation Headquarters at Coblentz was inundated by 20 feet of water. The statue of Wilhelm der Zweite atop the great Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine looked out upon a seemingly limitless dirt-yellow sea, which churned over vast areas of the Rhine valley...
...Earl of Birkenhead's Law of Property. Admirers of Charles Dickens have often chuckled at his celebrated legal caricature, the suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which like time itself went on forever to the enrichment of generations of barristers and the utter ruin of their clients...
...coalition of the Left parties in the Chamber prior to the period of utter political chaos in which France has weltered of late. Le Cartel existed as a solid bloc which dictated the policy of the Government...