Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came suddenly an abrupt, spontaneous general eagerness to know the Chairman's notions. He hesitated, nerved himself, unbent from his official role. "If you want my personal view," said Lord Tomlia carefully, "I think that, for all we know, they are all married. Rubbish to try to catch women at a thing like that...
...talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim tries to imagine himself in love with Lidia; he becomes her lover, is relieved not to have the affair end in marriage. There is no upshot to the story; with a description of the Exposition at Nizhni-Novgorod it comes to an abrupt...
...Abrupt and certainly not over optimistic was Mr. Young's conclusion as to whether Germany can pay the nine billions she has now agreed to pay. About six of these billions will eventually go to the U. S. in liquidation of the Allied War debts, the Allies keeping the balance for themselves...
...quite fair was this abrupt dismissal of Admiral von Tirpitz. He did alienate Britain with his ship-building program in the years before the War. More important, his ceaseless insistence on ruthless, unrestricted submarine warfare was the direct cause of the U.S. entry on the side of the allies. Yet for 20 years the commanding gentleman with the white forked beard was a German figure second in popular familiarity only to that of the Kaiser himself. (Almost unknown until 1916 was grave, grizzled Paul von Hindenburg, general of division...
During 1929 a great merger wave swept through U. S. banking, causing special activity in Manhattan where many a big combine was effected. With the stockmarket break, an abrupt end came to the move, its finale being the collapse of the National City-Corn Exchange merger. Last week there were rumors of another deal of first magnitude, and bankers predicted that the merger wave will soon be in full force again...