Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth provided opposition which, according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect...
...industry tell me that everything points to the gradual upturn that has been brought about by a constructive confidence built up by President Hoover. Students in the University repeat this new confidence that is felt over the country. To disrupt this feeling by an administrative change would be bound to freeze the entire financial system of the nation. Since the time of John Quincy Adams, there has been no president so tactless and as unattractive as Hoover. However, he has the ability to lay great plans and to accomplish important measures for the good of the country...
...illuminated the soft straw hat, the linen suit, the medical goatee of Candidate Brinkley as he took a seat before his loudspeaker and, widely gesturing, began his speech. The Brinkley platform: free school books, cheaper automobile licenses. The Brinkley pledge: that if he gets in office the State is bound to save money because he belongs to no political machine...
...message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean for legal fees...
When the Labor Party began it career it had definite, independent attitudes toward all vital political problems, as contrasted with the Liberal's and Conservatives, who were bound to unmeaning doctrines by tradition. In office, however, it did not act on the principles which it had confessed as His Majesty's Opposition, and came dangerously near to proving the Communist indictment, that socialism will always, in a pinch, stoop to the grossest opportunism. However, the facts that a Labor Cabinet has never had a majority in the House of Commons, and that the Party is a combination of elements never...