Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These pumps being the only source of water for both drinking and bathing, "it is easy to imagine the days when the only means of bathing in the Yard was to bend one's back under the spout of the pump, while a roommate vigorously plied the handle." In his "Harvard Memoirs" President Eliot wrote: "The students in my time--nineteen-twentieths of them--brought their water in their own pails from one of two pumps in the Yard, carrying it up to their rooms themselves. They had no hot water whatever, unless they heated a pot on their...
...excessive, since a heavy outflow of gold would quickly pare them to more normal proportions. To Chairman Eccles the track looks clear as far as he can see. Moreover, he disagrees with Banker Aldrich about the air-brakes. As soon as he spies a red-signal around the Recovery bend, he can: 1) Double reserve requirements, a move which would wipe out some 90% of the present excess. 2) Order the Reserve Banks to sell some of their $2,400,000,000 load of Government securities. To pay for all these bonds the member banks would have to draw down...
...General Election, his outstanding campaign move was to convince the electorate that the Baldwin Cabinet and the Conservative Party had become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced...
Lest they be accused of critical sabotage in the interests of the "corrupt capitalist press," Manhattan's reviewers habitually bend over backward to give radical drama the best possible marks. The case of Paradise Lost was no exception. Unanimously Mr. Odets was again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles...
...SCHAIRER South Bend...