Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with Nazi conceptions of national welfare. Capital surpluses went into armaments; the Nazis ceased to build houses. The peasant was bound to his land by laws prohibiting the sale or mortgaging of hereditary homesteads, and farm production was indirectly managed through price-fixing boards. The great drive of Wehrwirtschaft, or war economy...
Last week in Seattle, Mr. Burgunder, who had heard of the disappearance, was told that two men had been found shot dead in the Arizona desert, their feet bound with their own belts. "I hope," said he, "that one of them is my son." Then he was told that the bodies were those of the salesmen. Said Father Burgunder, "My God! I was afraid of that...
...power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived of the necessaries of life . . . but he is not willing...
...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has really added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...
...work of art is not simply a work of art in and by itself. It is not something to be started at by the members at a Ladies' Saturday Afternoon Club who will whisper in ignorant admiration and then speed home to play bridge. Art is neither hide-bound nor rigid but a sincere and amazingly human way of providing for the necessary satisfaction of both artist and audience...