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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption, bribery and precedence given measures for party expediency characterized his administrations, which were historically important in a negative sense, in that they gave a powerful impetus to reform, bred a widespread cynicism for democratic government, effectively discouraged able and conscientious men from seeking political careers...
...latter organization took up the standard in behalf of the commuters as the result of a widespread feeling that luncheon and recreation facilities, provided for the day students by Brooks House since 1932, were grossly inadequate for a group composing so large a percentage of the student body...
...Miss Van Buren has a notable collection of her own including a chest (set of six) of viols, one of which was owned by Handel. A thoroughgoing purist in restoring instruments, she also makes reproductions, would like nothing better than to see oldtime, easily playable instruments placed in a widespread number of homes...
...acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
Contrary to a widespread Washington rumor, the laboratories have developed no super-machine for snooping which may be plugged into a light socket. Because the U. S. generally considers wiretapping unsporting, regardless of the purpose, the Bureau uses this very difficult means of detection only on the specific orders of Director Hoover and then only under life-&-death circumstances...