Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowds at His Majesty's departure. During the month, however, British public opinion had changed so completely that scarcely 50 people were on hand to wave good-by to the Emperor's first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard in the swaying, jouncing train, with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asleep a few cars...
...What concerned the stockmarket most last week was the imminence of a more than seasonal summer slump. Automobile production is bound to taper off as motormakers prepare new models for November showings. Iron Age was pessimistic on steel operations after the July 4 shutdowns, reporting: "Heavy consumer buying from a number of sources is admittedly prompted by fear of labor trouble (see p. 16) as well as by higher third-quarter prices. . . . It cannot be denied that a large proportion of production during June has been borrowed from July and August...
...make its sovereignty complete; 2) Britain to pay the enormous cost of establishing near Capetown a naval base ranking with $150,000,000 Singapore, but South Africa to retain full sovereignty over the territory of the base; 3) Great Britain to recognize explicitly that South Africa is not bound to participate in a war entered by the Mother Country; 4) mutual agreement between Mother and Daughter that if, as South Africa anticipates, the Government of Portugal encounters heavy weather and its African colonies "fall upon the market," South Africa will share with Great Britain in determining their fate...
...week the steamer Lorraine Cross met a tiny, two-masted tub lolloping along under sail with a distress signal flying. When the master of the Lorraine Cross asked what was wrong, the four men on the little tub's deck shouted back that she was the Margaret Harold bound from London to Trinidad via Gibraltar, that they were completely out of food and fuel. The Lorraine Cross's captain observed that the ship's name had been painted out. He asked to see her papers. At once the four men yanked down their distress signal, hoisted sail...
People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat...