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Word: distressful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lower cost; and, of course, Chicago had seen nothing but deep red since 1928. Heavy fixed debts, relics of the anterior period of over-expansion plus the increasing tax delinquency problem, and the burden of welfare work and relief have all combined to effect this unhealthy financial distress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE MONEY | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

...they would to a football coach. For him they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed that he invited them, with the Radcliffe Choral Society from across the Yard, to give choral works with the Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Glee High, Glee Low | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...opinion of the Chief Justice of the U. S. the bituminous coal industry is in "distress," riddled with injurious practices, in a thoroughly "deplorable" state. Because the Chief Justice is right, James D. Francis, coal operator of Huntington, W. Va., acting under a plan launched by the National Coal Association year and a half ago to place all sales in the hands of regional agencies, set up Appalachian Coals, Inc. He quickly persuaded 137 independent operators controlling three-fourths of all production in the Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee fields and one-eighth of all production east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Combination | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...outstanding man for the year, did you consider the achievements of the Chinese Minister of Finance, Mr. T. V. Soong, who in addition to balancing the budget for his government, also headed the organization which repaired the ravages of the worst flood in modern history, effectively relieving the distress of 15 million flood victims and completely restoring over 5,000 mi. of dyke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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