Word: core
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White folks eat de apple, Nigger wait fo' co' [core] In Sistren an' Brethren, the rebellious singer commands: Stop foolin' wid pray, When black face is lifted, Lord turnin...
Only the most minor liberties with historical truth are taken and these only when demanded by the exigencies of the theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience...
...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...
...wish to congratulate you on your expose of the Fascist methods used by our present Administration to maintain political power in your article on Emil Hurja [TIME, March 2]. I had a taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted...
...what constitutes inflation, largely because of the astonishing lack of agreement on just where good times become a boom and a boom becomes inflation. On only one point is there any unanimity: the possibilities of inflation in the U. S. lie almost wholly within the banking system. And the core of that problem is bank reserves and their manipulation. Excess Reserves. The principal medium of exchange in the U. S. is not currency, which accounts for only 10% of the total money supply, but credit money, which means checks. By law a bank must maintain with a Federal Reserve Bank...