Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaints from every State in the union except Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Admitting that he was "tremendously disconcerted" by the charges of graft against his organization, Mr. Hopkins declared: "We'll do our own housecleaning. Our legal department tells me all this is nothing more than was bound to happen. But I never anticipated anything of the kind. I suppose I'm naïve and unsophisticated but that's the truth and I feel very badly about it. . . . The thing gets too big for you to keep in touch with all your people and those...
Peculiarly Bolshevik was a scandal which broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
Said Jonker next day: "I entrust everything of value to my wife. That night we bound the diamond in a cloth and tied it around my wife's neck. I saw her to bed after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond...
Like jackals, Canton troops raced north to snap up abandoned towns before Nanking did. A batch of rebel politicians led by Eugene Chen moped off on a Hong-kong-bound steamer...
...most obvious remedy for this lamentable situation is to provide more books containing only elementary and popular course exams like History 1, Economics A and Physics C for which the demand is greatest. The bound books that now contain everything in a given department from, say, the lower reaches of Slavic 4 to the higher reaches of Indic Philology would then no longer exist quite so much for the benefit of one student to the exclusion of all the potential intermediate beneficiaries. However, the most effective method of accomplishing this result in its entirely would be to stock the library...