Word: conditioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called...
Economist Frederick Robertson Macaulay: "The bond market has reached such high levels it may eventually even be necessary artificially to bolster the prices of Government securities if the condition of the banks is not to be the factor that will lead, some years hence, to another general collapse."
May my application so close To so endless a repetition Not make me tired and morose And resentful of man's condition.
Katherine and Murry had a hard time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their...
To this condition, the Council remained utterly inattentive except when it was necessary to pay bills or collect pledges. Pressure was exerted through other agencies and the courses were reformed to a great extent; two members of the Council forced through a revision system of Freshman elections which made them...