Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light on the understanding of the revolutionary and religious movements of that significant period. For his books on this subject, perhaps even more than for his lectures he will be remembered as a great scholar possessed with the keenest of intellects and yet with the crispness of wit which save his works from the abyss of factual documentary, but dull historical evidence...
...mayor. He received his law degree in 1910. As a member of Congress for 14 years, he attracted national attention. His shrill voice, squat body and flashing eyes went into bantam-cock motion when he felt legislation was unintelligent and designed for the privileged. His fearlessness, eloquence and ready wit kept him on front pages...
...Last week nearly every lawyer agreed that one afternoon in the Supreme Court Chamber, the interstate commerce clause of the U. S. Constitution had been rewritten and enlarged to include many things which for 149 years past it has never held within its few brief elastic words, to wit: "The Congress shall have Power ... to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations and among the several States and with the Indian Tribes...
Added years didn't dull Rogers' wit. When the famous pump in the Yard was repaired last June, he was asked to have the first drink. In a brief impromptu speech he praised water as a benefit to humanity, saying "it's done so much for navigation...
...describe both ends of it at the same time Reno, for instance, does have cold, snowy win ters; but her summers are never hot. While Reno is summering with coolish days, and cooler nights, Las Vegas in the southern part of the state is experiencing hot dry days; but wit! most of her nights cool. So rare is snow ir Las Vegas, that when a light snow covered the ground one January morning in 1930, many of the grammar-school children, and a few high school youths saw snow flakes for the first time m their lives...