Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public works program, costing up to $5,000,000,000, with direct Federal relief to the jobless needy. "I have no doubt the Government could borrow...
...pure have Japanese politics been since then!-from the Fighting Services standpoint. Army and Navy appropriations, zooming higher and higher to astronomical figures, have slipped through the frightened Imperial Diet and House of Peers with lightning celerity, whether Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi had the money or had to borrow it. The new Premier has been a General's jewel. He, easy-going Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito (retired), has constantly deferred to the military caste, represented in his Cabinet by Lieut.-General Sadao Araki...
Over half of my students are in the House, and I see them much oftener than any other students. The convenience of proximity is important, and I think I do better work with these students that I know well. It is easier for them to borrow books from me, we can discuss literary matters at meal times, and I should not be surprised if it were generally true that students in Houses are better tutored than those outside--not that there are better tutors in Houses, but from the point of view of frequency, informality, and intimacy. The diffidence...
...child. Every Englishman is familiar with cartoons of Winston Churchill picturing his bulging forehead crowned by a tiny hat. He explains that this is a cartoonist's invention, necessitated by the fact that he has no "distinctive mark," based on a single instance when he had to borrow a hat that was too small for him. At Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because he has a "preference for the optimistic side of things." Among many vigorous yarns about the War, funniest (unintentionally) is "My Spy Story," in which he tells how he discovered and demolished a searchlight...
...fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present the air of Massachusetts is filled with a dark brown taste, and the sky is overcast. A Princeton catalogue makes good reading...