Word: braked
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Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
...their part are the first to strive to avoid for their clients all unnecessary litigation. But men of lesser standards attracted into the profession by the success of these very men constantly make for an increase of litigation whether their brothers wish it or no. The only available brake upon such development is an increased severity in the terms of admission to the bar. Boston Transcript...
...hard coal strike commenced Sept. 1, and threw out of work 158,000 men. These highly unionized workers are now enjoying an indefinite autumn vacation. Yet small town merchants in the coal region complain of the brake put on their business...
This situation has resulted essentially from the present position of the U. S. as a creditor nation and our apparently inexhaustible supplies of gold credit in our banking establishments. Always before, lack of banking accommodations has acted as a brake upon overdevelopment of business activity. While frequently painful in application, this brake nevertheless was fundamentally salutary. Now the brake has apparently been removed, except in so far as the Reserve System can enforce such a policy irrespective of the gold hoard in its vaults...