Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome week was partly due to the heat. In the Senate the temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling system, the Senate's is not yet installed. With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief and wearily remarked: "I always try to be good...
Last week the Democratic party, seeking efficiency, took a step to change this system, to give its publicity point and printability. It hired away from the arch-Democratic New York World famed Washington Correspondent Charles Michelson, to be national Democratic publicity...
Patrolman Emil Servine held up the stop sign. White was lodged in the International Falls jail, charged first with manslaughter, then with murder. Safe there, he made no great effort to raise his $5,000 bail. The little town's citizenry seethed with indignation against White and "the system" he represented. Banding together they wrote a public protest to President Hoover which concluded: "In our utter helplessness, terror and distraction, we are at last resorting to you. . . . For God's sake, help...
...know how "assistants" are chosen, so I cannot offer any remedy for the system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
Rene Leriche: Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg, who has shown how to operate with success on the delicate fibres of the sympathetic nervous system...