Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accumulated mail of the week, go calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions...
...President in sympathy with lowering the tariff [because] in the future our tariffs must be lowered and regulated as a result of international agreement. . . . We are practically stopped from negotiating any reciprocity treaties because we are bound, hand & foot, by the so-called 'most favored nation' treaties. France makes fine gloves. We need them. She needs our wheat. We could make a reciprocity treaty with France admitting her gloves free or at a low tariff in return for free admission for wheat. But we have an unconditional 'most favored nation' treaty with Czechoslovakia which also makes...
...floor in time to hear Louis Marin, aged Nationalist leader, flaying any proposal to make payment. Loud applause greeted M. Marin's shout: "If we pay now, why shouldn't we pay on June 15 and for that matter for the next 60 years? We are not bound to pay because of the Hoover moratorium. We don't want to be dupes! England has a special policy toward the U. S. and has a means of pressure which we have...
...most evident in a course which consists to a large extent of translation, but the instructors who lend their efforts to Latin B make the best of a difficult piece of work. Admittedly, the material which comes to them from Latin A and from preparatory schools is too much bound by fealty to the dictionary to appreciate to the fullest the sweet words of Horace and Catullus. This granted, the course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half-year's work, which anyone may take...
...Bound by League Rules...