Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses viewed the Raskob document and said: "I have no recollection of ever having seen any manuscript of that character. I might add, however, that I believe any person who would resort to rifling the mails would not hesitate to commit a forgery...
...Professor Einstein, frantic with the imminence of death from heart trouble, has been intensely working on two new theories corollary to relativity. One he has just submitted to the Berlin Academy of Science, for study. The other is yet unfinished. Last summer he spent at Lubeck, Baltic sea resort. Last week he was in Berlin, reasoning a few hours each day in a small, secluded room atop his apartment house. His malady has made him annoyingly nervous and querulous. In his wife's words, if someone suddenly disturbs him, he screams, shrieks and raves. Then he calms down...
Another provocative item was, "Loans: Oct. 11, 1928, through County Trust Company, 15th Street and 8th Avenue, New York City, $500,000." Chairman Raskob explained, correctly, that "it has been the practice in recent campaigns to resort to this procedure when expenditures run ahead of receipts, as they usually do." The size of the loan thus frankly announced was, however, sensational. To finance the deficit of the 1920 campaign, the Republican party made loans of $600,000 and $167,000 through the Empire Trust Co., of Manhattan...
...Harvard's problem will be to stabilize its offensive game and to match its defense against the Dartmouth aerial attack. The Green will attempt to run the ball but if the Harvard line holds it will resort to the passing game. In order for the Crimson to win it will have to show a vast improvement over the showing which if made against the Army tosses last Saturday...
...Certain unscrupulous telegraphic agencies continue to resort to rumors of political difficulties in Spain, forgetting in the first place that, properly said, there is not any politics at present. The last rumor is the most picturesque, assuming that His Majesty, while at San Sebastian, had refused his signature to the Premier on several decrees of destitution of authorities that the Premier proposed to relieve of their positions for having been unfaithful to the regime. The national opinion knows the value of such tricks, but the good faith of the foreign opinions might be surprised by such misleading news and therefore...