Word: crux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...potency test of a French Prime Minister is whether he can lash his budget through the Chamber of Deputies by Jan. 1. Nobody had done it for years until 1926, when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...
Sirs: . . . The crux of West Point's stand lies in ... that with its smaller enrolment it cannot cope with Annapolis unless it can disregard the three-year rule...
...crux of the matter is that the law requires tourists to declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...
Here is the very crux of a matter which is vital because the continued refusal of British Governments to grant India independence within the Empire (that is "dominion status" similar to Canada's) has always been based on the ground that Indians are not yet ready to govern themselves. Naturally the degree of India's "readiness" is a matter of opinion, and here is a big, well ordered, meaty book from which opinion can be digested...
...strike, like an army, moves on its stomach. Food became the crux of the textile strikes in North Carolina last week. Supplies for strikers were dwindling. Relief funds dribbled in slowly. A war of attrition moved into its sixth week...