Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Court of Customs and Patent Appeals went Researcher Arzberger. He produced drawings to show that his Clostridium had such characteristic plant features as vegetative cells, spores. The court observed that in the one-celled world the line between animals and plants is vague, that bacteria behave rather like animals. Arzberger showed that scientists nevertheless class bacteria as plants. Thereupon the court produced its clincher: the Congressmen who passed the plant patent law were not scientists...
...Cabinet members are worthy of their jobs, they can command far larger salaries in private life than the Government's $15,000 a year. No President can order a man of such a type to do anything: he must convince and persuade him. And so on down the line, with lesser civil servants, with the Senate, the House, the States. And always, behind everything, the press and finally, the people. All must be persuaded...
...line from New York's long-running Life with Father which brought down the house on election night: "Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" ^ Edward Devlin, 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman, made a 66-hour marathon speech for President Roosevelt in Tuscaloosa...
...Cornell cheering section, nestled in the crook of Schoellkopf crescent, chanted their plea for a touchdown. The game was only ten minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...
...last week this wish neared the border line of reality. Henry Ford, 77, gleefully swung an ax with all his lanky might against the plastic rear end of a special Ford car. Then he pointed to the un dented, unmarred finish, announced his company would be mass-producing plastic-bodied automobiles in at least one, at most three years...