Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that once in the dim and distant past there lived a sage named Hesiodus, who, reflecting upon the vagaries of human nature, exclaimed: "The HALF is MORE than the WHOLE." If he was not thinking of Adam before Eve was born, he undoubtedly had in mind, with prophetic vision, the advent of TIME...
...hearings was to evolve a common political denominator on which sufficient Republican strength could be massed to insure the farm bill against serious revision on the House floor. The committee was ready to compromise, to grant increased agricultural rates to win solid party support for the bill as a whole against all Democratic amendments...
Louisiana has yet to make history by trying a Governor under impeachment. For a month its House of Representatives had labored mightily erecting an impeachment case against redheaded, dimple-cheeked Gov. Huey P. Long. Last week this whole structure fell to the ground when sufficient State Senators banded together to vote for Gov. Long's acquittal regardless of any evidence against...
...Washington, the agitation for a Senate investigation of textile labor troubles began to bear fruit. North Carolina's Senator Simmons withdrew his objections to a resolution by Montana's Senator Wheeler, when the scope of the inquiry was broadened to take in the whole U. S. instead of a few Southern States...
...glad of that, glad the whole War was long over and done with, when he last week took charge of a U. S. flying field named for one of the greatest U. S. aces, Major Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker...