Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were unable to pay taxes, that 15% could not even meet payrolls. Repeal jumped restaurant receipts 40% and room receipts have run 12% above 1933, but most of those gains have been canceled by rising costs of labor, food and supplies. The Hotel Code is largely honored in the breach but still the hotels cannot make money...
Here is an interesting example of the divergence between tutors and tutees which so contradicts the theory of the house plan. To blame either group for this breach would be unjust, for the disparity in age and interests is no unnatural barrier. But some enterprising individuals do enjoy familiarity with their tutors, and that such friendships are not more prevalent is to be regretted. The house dinner if properly handled would present a splendid opportunity to promote such contacts...
...California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California history. Democratic registration outnumbered the Republican total for the first time in nearly 60 years...
...lead story in the Record these past few days has been the case of one Miss Renke against Cyrus Dmitri Cominos on charges of breach of promise. Now, this Cominos was formerly a student at the Harvard Dental School, although that institution is keeping quiet about it just now. He was there from 1920 and 1922 and during 1923-24, but never seemed to get anywhere...
...start. Endeavour passed her on the first leg. Shortly after rounding the mark, Rainbow over-took Endeavour, went on to win by more than a minute. After the race, Skipper Sopwith filed a protest with the America's Cup Race Committee. He stated that Rainbow had committed one breach of rules before the start, which enabled her to get across the line first, and another after rounding the first mark, which had enabled her to regain the lead...