Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every Saturday for the past ten-years I've climbed that tower too wind the machinery and I can tell you it's no easy job. There's a weight of about pounds which is at the end of a cable wound round a spool. When we wind the clock it means that the weight has to be lifted 100 feet. The bells are rung by a weight of 1500 pounds which has to be lifted the same height. As a rule it takes me nearly an hour to finish...
...ever been a more striking example of mistaken judgment or a more complete reversal of political fortune in the history of this government." But was there a filibuster? Senator Borah leading the Court opposition at one time exclaimed: "I am not going to engage in a filibuster. I've been 18 years in this body and I have never taken part in a filibuster yet. I've spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest...
MORE LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER-St. John de Crève-coeur-Yale University Press ($4). Letters from an American Farmer, published in England in 1782, is a book known to serious students of the period of American history just prior to and during the Revolution. Buried for nearly a century and a half in the cabinets of the Crèvecoeur family, unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Even for casual readers the book has interest and the sort of charm inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted...
...almost miraculous to me, the way some of you boys can absorb data and general knowledge the night before an examination. I can't do it, and I've tried. it seems almost as if your minds were like sponges under the control of your will. All night before the examinations you let the sponge expand. The next morning you squeeze it out over a whole blue book and the sponge is dry again. But it has served its purpose...
...with his knee pressed on the stomach of a prostrate victim, into whose agonized countenance he was simultaneously thrusting some hideous instrument of torture. A third man, baldish, smiling dangerously, looked on. The caption sounded distinctly criminal. It read : " 'Go through his pockets,' said Ellicott, after a while. 'I've got him dead...