Word: yes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resolution called for a joint committee of both Houses of Congress to negotiate with bidders for a 50-year lease of Muscle Shoals, the lessee to manufacture nitrates and distribute electric power. By April 1 the joint committee was to report a lease to which Congress could say either "Yes" or "No." The Senate after several days' debate also passed the resolution by vote of 51 to 26. But certain amendments were made: 1) The committee is to report not only "a lease" but "a lease or leases." 2) The lessee must promise to distribute power on an equitable basis...
...dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter freezing the others out? What about the good team of Egg and Eaton? Yes, they were badly scrambled, he was told. He smirked briefly and recomposed his face. His father, he reminded himself hastily, would never have laughed at a pun like that...
...Yes, I am English," the comedian of the "Naughty Riquette" company admitted, "and all that remains for me is to apologize for that fact...
...Yes. Since the Germans primarily desire culture, then it is no more than feasible that they should adopt those measures which will ultimately lead to it. The plan of four-year curricula in the American Colleges and high schools is a distinct advantage over the present nine-year course of instruction in the German Gymnasiums. The American Instructor is able to associate with his students, and thereby becomes a psychological specialist in reference to them. The German student is ten years old when he enters the Gymnasium, and is at least 19 before he completes the course. These nine years...
...Yes, gentlemen, the Government will continue to carry out its full program without heeding the cries of the priests. Nothing worries me in all their maneuvers. Nothing interests me in these intrigues. I declare solemnly before the entire nation that the energy that the Government is developing and that it will continue to develop will not bend before any pressure, before any threat, and as long as I am President the constitution of 1917 will be effective...