Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Fiscal, you mention "after relief rolls climbed from 17,314,000 in January to 18,502,000. . . ." Can those figures be right? I thought there were only some 11,000,000 unemployed in the whole nation...
...hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees for a brief separate meeting, then readmitted them. When the whole committee finally emerged, the conferees announced, with delighted beams, that after nearly six months of drafting, debate and conferences, Congress finally had a tax bill destined soon to become the law of the land...
...attacks were clean, the tone was pure, and there was plenty of body in the choral sections. Although the orchestra occasionally became a bit indefinite in its playing of the Gloria and the Credo, it redeemed itself gloriously in the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. The soloists on the whole sang well and with feeling...
...explanation for the unprecedented event was that the Varsity boat and Coach Tom Bolles had expected that the Freshmen would complete the whole ace instead of quitting at the end of the Henley distance as they...
Speaking on "The Federal System," Professor Frankfurter insisted that the Supreme Court was justified in its voiding of many state laws, since the foremost consideration must always be the benefit of the nation as a whole. However, the judicial control over state laws is often costly, for it "stops experimentation at its source and bars needed increase to the fund of social knowledge...