Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged new bills in Congress. International silver merchants excitedly bid up the world price to 65?. But the U. S. public and U. S. stockmarkets remained calm. Two years ago they would have frothed and foamed at such news but now it was old stuff. Stocks failed to bound upward. Pulses (outside the Senate) failed to beat faster...
...steel-splintering crash, almost beneath his window, brought Rev. Charles R. O'Hara bounding from his bed. By the time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests...
...sense at least, of the House Plan. This very success, however, brings with itself problems which, though not demanding immediate remedy, will make themselves troublesomely obvious. With 819 Freshmen applying for the less than 700 vacancies, the cries of indignation from the large number of students who are bound to be disappointed will ring loud and unmistakable throughout the Yard. Although the prospect of becoming one of the "forgotten men" of Little and Claverly will naturally alarm rejected applicants, they will do well to make an effort to understand the conditions before racing indignantly wild-eyed to a group...
...plains mapped out, the hills a natural bound...
...impersonated by big-eyed, golden-haired Actress Helen Chandler, Angela Shale is a young woman who looks like an angel out of Heaven, but generally acts like the most mischievous little shrew who ever sat on a ducking stool. By tears, coquetry, wheedling, imprecations, she is bound and determined to make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit...