Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even less potentially troublesome are the Mexican Ambassador's other problems. Last month Mexico paid the first $500,000 of an agreed $7,000,000 to settle U. S. claims for life and property destroyed in the chaotic years 1910-20. Old Ambassador Josephus Daniels has solidly entrenched himself with Mexican officials by his seeming sympathy with their Six-Year Plan. Cautious and tentative have been Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about...
Southern hardwood lumbermen openly defied NRA to enforce code prices after they were offered a huge order from Fisher Body Corp. (TIME, Sept. 17). In the softwood regions of the Northwest chiseling was the rule. To keep a finger on the chaotic industry, NIRB last week made a point of retaining the Lumber Code's production control...
...four are interrelated. Otherwise li without i becomes dishonest; without lien becomes extravagant; without ch'ih becomes flattering. All these may appear like li but really they are not. ... In like manner, ch'ih without li will be chaotic; without i, violent; without lien, ugly. They are no longer...
...Lockhart is personally as fascinating as ever: humorous, egotistically amusing, naively entertaining. But he does not have the background to work with or the experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears...
...Josiah: I feel inclined to say to all of you scientific pundits: There would not be a problem at all if you were not so chaotic in your discoveries?if you would only introduce them under conditions that we could control...