Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff talks will be taken amiss in Berlin and regarded as lining up Belgium in an alliance against Germany, shall Der Führer be appeased? 2) Do the British and French intend to join in defending a Belgium once more attacked by Germany? 3) In case German bombers bound for Britain are heard by Belgians roaring over their country, will that constitute a "violation of Belgium" and would the Belgians instantly tip off the British what was coming? 4) What about the Belgian territories in East Africa, cattle-growing Ruanda and Urundi, onetime Imperial German colonies, upon which, most...
...Mensendieck's system is her conception of the body as a collection of muscle-bound bones. She calculates that the head of a 150-lb. individual weighs 10 lb., his hands 1 lb. each, forearms 4 lb. each, upper arms 5 lb. each, trunk 70 lb., thighs 15 lb. each, lower legs 7 lb. each, feet 3 lb. each...
...stiff-armed salute, he puts his weight on his right foot and thrusts his left leg backward. The left leg thus counterbalances the upraised right arm. Because Nazis and Fascists stand with their feet together when they salute, they strain themselves (according to Mensendieck theory) and are bound to have unesthetic legs and rumps...
...many times before, President Lie won one of the 15 prizes himself: $400 for a Maine landscape entitled Rock Bound Coast. Rockwell Kent won another prize for one of his familiar marine views, Reginald Marsh won a third for an equally familiar Bowery crowd before a sideshow...
...both these grocery store revolutions Earl D. Babst played a spotlight role. A lawyer-turned-merchandiser, Sugarman Babst learned about trademarking as National Biscuit's general counsel, a job which involved hundreds of infringement suits, and in his Manhattan office today he has two shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer acceptance. And in 1915 when he was made president of American Sugar, Mr. Babst set out to persuade U. S. housewives to ask the grocer for Domino instead of plain...