Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, ascetic Opposition pillar of British morality, Viscount Cecil, rebutted: "I suggest that the Four Power Conference was to enable Hitler to get out of his [Godesberg] position with the least loss of reputation...
...willing to suggest abolition of traffic lights, which most safety experts agree are necessary in heavy traffic, Dr. Fabing called attention to several patented, non-confusing systems. His recommendation: a clock-dial light with a rotating hand swinging from a green section at the top to a yellow caution light at the quarter-hour position, to a red section at the bottom, to another yellow caution light at the three-quarter-hour position- the hand always showing by its position how much green or red time remains...
...further suggest that the "million U. S. taxpayers" who, like myself, have long awaited news of this inevitable accident contribute to a fund to erect a monument commemorating the spot. What would be more fitting than to have Ellis Colvin pose for the sculptor, assuming the position he had the moment before the calamity fell? What do other tax (W)PAyers say to this...
...however, were the doctors willing even to suggest any use (such as temporary relief of uremia) to which the method might eventually be put. But Mr. Pepys, willing like most laymen to rush in where scientists fear to tread, ventured 272 years ago to draw a conclusion from the experiment he described. Said he: "This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but . . . may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing...
...love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth, is making a brilliant marriage herself. At this point The Buccaneers breaks off. Mrs. Wharton's notes suggest that the governess was to sacrifice her own future to help Nan escape. That ending, however, would create almost as many difficulties as it would solve...