Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back a politely savage letter, requesting him to note that the Rhode Island lace industry, under three years of agreements, had recovered almost 100% of its 1929 volume of $27,000,000. Senators Pittman of Nevada, Borah of Idaho, had already served notice that next session they would seek to regain the Senate's power to approve trade agreements...
Autonomy. "The new world that we seek will enlist the cooperation of all peoples on a basis of human equality, self-respect and mutual tolerance...
...bases power on diplomacy. It is the antithesis of the French system, since instead of striving to secure permanent allies against a permanent enemy, she regards her allies and her enemies as interchangeable. It is the antithesis of the British system, since it is not durable credit that she seeks for, but immediate advantage. Her conception, moreover, of the Balance of Power is not identical with the British conception; for whereas in Great Britain that doctrine is interpreted as opposition to any country who may seek to dominate Europe, in Italy it is desired as a balance of such equipoise...
...been the purpose oi the present administration to explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report submitted last spring has been accepted in principle...
...vast majority of U. S. churchmen" and by various other devices and innuendoes you have created the impression not only that I am urging that this country become involved in war, that I am invoking the aid of the Deity to affect its outcome, but furthermore, that I seek publicity by startling and sensational means, all of which are utterly false, malicious and libelous...