Word: castered
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...vote cast against M. Quesnay was Germany's (caster: Dr. Hans Luther, mild successor to brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as President of the Reichsbank). In the first place Germany does not want a Frenchman managing the B. I. S.; in the second place German financiers particularly mistrust a "young man," have often muttered objections against the youth of Seymour Parker Gilbert, 37, protégé of Owen D. Young as agent general of reparations...
...Standard's move, first advance in California since August 1928, was said to be in the nature of a reward for producers who have cooperated in curtailing production, but it started reports that other fields will follow. In any case the ultimate effect will be to help the caster; markets, now suffering from the dumping of cheap California gasoline. Equally beneficial will be the court's decision, for, assured of its legality, other States are said to be ready to pass similar conservation laws...
...attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...
...received his diploma from Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chancellor of the University, statesman, bird-lover, fly-caster. In presenting the diploma Viscount Grey recited a long discourse in Latin ripe with many a classical pun. Myopic, he could not read the speech, was forced to memorize it. Toward the end his memory failed...
...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...