Taft
[tæft;ta:ft]
Definition
(noun.) 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930).
(noun.) United States sculptor (1860-1936).
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Definition
v.t. in plumbing to spread the end of a lead pipe outward so as to form a wide thin flange.
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Examples
- He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- President Taft and a great audience were present. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yes, indeed, I can imagine, said Mrs. Taft, keeping the number of thirty stitches carefully in her mind all the while; there are so many of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- President Taft crossed the field and shook Orville Wright’s hand. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Contrast it with the Taft administration, and the quality is set in relief. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He must be aware of the condition of the people: no statesman must fall into the sincere but thoroughly upper class blunder that President Taft committed when he advised a three months' vacation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It had the same ground as the instinctive feeling of nine men in ten that Roosevelt has more right to talk about peace than William Howard Taft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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