Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole of 1934. Said Standard Statistics Co., Inc.: "Expenditures for construction are one of the most greatly effective means of creating employment, since 76? of every dollar so expended goes directly to labor. The conclusion is inescapable that the upswing in home construction represents another milestone in the climb out of the depression...
...kind of undemonstrative growling and groveling of which most wrestling addicts heartily disapprove although they know it signifies the sincerity of the bout they are watching, Wrestler O'Mahoney contrived to throw his opponent over the ropes. Rules specified that George had 20 seconds in which to climb back into the ring. When he failed to do so, Referee James J. Braddock, Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, raised O'Mahoney's right hand...
...down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent job, she appealed to the New York State Commissioner of Education, who last week asked Board of Examiners Chairman Henry Levy to state his grounds. Fat teachers, said Examiner Levy, cannot climb stairs, move fast enough in fire drills; they are a poor risk for the compulsory pension system; they are "esthetically undesirable." Said Rose Freistater's sturdy father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big and strong. That fellow Levy said she wasn't pretty. What does...
...Almost all of our toys are electric," the dazzled Serbian moppets were told by 11-year-old King Peter. An earnest child, His Majesty then sat down at the wheel of his electric automobile, commanded favored child subjects to climb in behind, sedately drove the car around his palace grounds. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Prince Tomislav was out on the Palace lake, piloting other moppets in the King's electric boat. Astonishing, however, was the turn of royal duty done by 6-year-old Prince Andreja. Moppets lisped in Serbian-English after the party that "Pwinth Andwea wode...
...should be recognized that our financial interests are bound up with the prosperity of Japan and the pacification of China. Japan is our best customer in the Far East. Furthermore her merchants are our leading agents in China. It is essentially stupid for the United States to climb out on any more limbs in behalf of English investments in China or French money in Indo-China. We hold no concessions in China. Neither have we any territory which is prejudiced by Japanese aggression or investments, which are worth the price of adequate defense...