Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heaven is not reached at a single bound...
...amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill's purpose. If the caucus had bound itself to that proposition, President Roosevelt would have been ditched by his own House. But it takes a two-thirds caucus vote to bind. The party leaders, no greenhorns, skilfully shifted their objective, mustered more than the one-third necessary to send every Democrat marching out of the meeting free...
...Chase Bank, no matter what it discloses, will now fall flat, for Mr. Aldrich has by his statement repudiated the policies of his predecessor, Albert Henry Wiggin. He can, unlike Charles Edwin Mitchell, declare himself in agreement with the critics of his bank. Moreover banking reform measures are now bound to be enacted, and little would be gained but public censure by opposing them. By speaking out Mr. Aldrich bettered his position, aligned himself with the prevailing banking spirit of the times...
Despite the inherent difficulty of the study of the fundamentals of Economics and the special difficulties that result from the fact that the subject is bound up with problems of human psychology, concentration in the field must command the serious attention of Freshmen. Its cultural value, while not as patent as that of more esoteric activities, is attested by the fact that many teachers of Economics had their beginnings in other subjects. While one might dismiss as naturally biased the declaration by a leading economist that it is the "greatest cultural study," the fact remains that just as religion...
...Thursday afternoon an inauguration-bound train roared through mist and cold rain, through vistas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Citizen Roosevelt and captains of the Democratic host were speeding to the reward of victory at the polls...