Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, "After the Great Companions" isn't wholly a bad book. It is rather nicely bound, printed on good paper, and has less than 300 pages...
...obvious and much-publicized Russian nationalism which is afraid to jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal affairs; the other is the Bolshevik scorn of the Viennese Social Democrats, antipathy which long outdates the present series of that party's collapses. Bound by the toils of the Marxian dialectic, the Stalinites could not consistently admit the presence in Austria of a revolutionary movement. It did not bear the approved brand, it preserved a united from of reds and pinks (which was no slight triumph of leadership), and it took no orders from the Kremlin...
...with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life in 1897 to 1933 is bound up with his career as the slave of hospitality. His whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service...
When Mr. MacCracken was subpenaed to tell about that meeting he declined to give the Senate Committee access to his correspondence files. His excuse was that as a lawyer he was bound not to betray the confidence of his air mail clients. At Senator Black's suggestion he agreed to wire his clients for permission to open his files. Two days later he calmly admitted to the Committee that the evening before during a heavy snow storm, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, president of Northwest Airways, and Gilbert Givvin, secretary to the President of Western Air Express, had gone...
Major weaknesses in last week's agreement were 1) the fact that it is not a contract but a protocol; 2) independent stations, not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, are in no way bound by the agreement...