Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confess that I did not expect that the new British tariff system would work but I am bound to admit that it is producing remarkable results. . . . Three years ago Great Britain had dropped to third place in the list of exporting countries, but today she again stands first...
...small apartment in the Rue de la Chaussee 'd'Antin near the Opera. Into that apartment French detectives broke last December to find, so they said, a pile of strange documents hidden behind a bureau, 19,000 francs in cash, and a chronometer and two magnifying glasses bound together.* Crying loudly that they had been framed by the French counterespion age service, the famed Denxieme Bureau, the Switzes were led off to separate jails, he to La Sante, she to La Petite Roquette. Since then they have met seldom. They were together briefly last week when police brought...
Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word...
...Government there were two lawyers, for the defense 50. The Gov- ernment's brief was a bound volume of 520 pages, the defense's a volume of 1,000 pages. The testimony filled 10,000 pages and the exhibits filled a 10 ft. shelf. The action was brought in 1931 and the six- month trial in 1932 was one of the longest on record. There was no jury, no spectators. Concluded last year, U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al. was the most important anti-trust case since the dissolution of Standard...
...such proceeding, the examiner or the board shall not be bound by the rules of evidence prevailing in courts of law or equity...