Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even in these days of abject pessimism at least one business organization is finding conditions much less adverse than supposed. The Cycle Trades of America, a trust more in keeping with muttonleg sleeves than air transport lines, has announced that the bicycle is coming back. If a thirty percent increase in bicycle sales over 1928 is any criterion, we shall soon be discarding our Fords, if any, in favor of the more economical two-wheeler. Wellesley has already grappled with the problem of four hundred careless cyclists--women drivers are as dangerous on two as on four wheels and Princeton...
...Senators' counsel. Prize exhibit of the week's hearings was Samuel Insull Jr., whose father and uncle fled the country when their towers toppled. Short, spectacled, with a smile and spirit markedly like his cockney-born father's, Insull Jr. made a polite but far from abject witness. He testified that the Insull family once had paper profits of $25,000,000 on an original investment of $8,500,000 in Insull Utility Investments, Inc. Most of their stock was subscribed at $7.50 a share and they were given options on other big blocks...
Last week Vol. 1, No. 1 appeared. Selling at 50?, it is handsomely printed in octavo size, resembling Hound & Horn. The first issue had no pages and four pages of half-tones tipped in. Typical of the latter was "The Forgotten Man," an abject figure asleep in a cheap doorway. Contributors to the first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard...
...Mild, abject Indians who somehow managed to spring bewildering surprises on both the First and the Second Indian Round Table Conference, managed to spring a few more last week, as dignified Scot MacDonald opened what he called, with characteristic optimism, "The Third and Final Conference...
...diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work; the palace towering over the hovel; privilege and underprivileged...