Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned recovery for Dartmouth. Recovery not only from the depths of athletic slump, but better still from the depths of listlessness and cynicism which had begun to surround the college life. At the same time it is not meant to be something like the old and trite "Do or Die for Harvard" collegiana. There are hopes it will reach deeper...
General Johnson figured that the Blue Eagle blanketed 85% of the land. But temporary re-employment agreements which had hatched the Blue Eagle automatically lapse Dec. 31. After that the popular ballyhoo will die away and NRA emphasis will shift to administering permanent codes, limited to a few major industries...
...collaborate on good plays (Broadway, Coquette) as well as bad ones (Lilly Turner). His current production, neither good nor bad, is laid in a filling station on the edge of a U. S. desert. Peddling gas and oil to itinerant Mexicans, Reno divorcers, old folks on their way to die in the elephant valley of California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister onetime boy friend (Robert Gleckler of Broadway) arrives and, snarling...
...high enough to pay for the manufacturing equipment in a few years. The price would impede the sale of the article, make new manufacturers think long before throwing something new into the market. Meanwhile old concerns with slowly depreciating equipment to amortize would have opportunity to revive, or to die gently instead of abruptly. But, deplored Sir Josiah, his idea of a referee is tenable only if all classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged...
...members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon saw that at least two-thirds of the P. C. C. frankly favored price-fixing, that only one, President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp.* was a die-hard freemarketer...