Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distress is rife and is touching the pocketbooks of Harvard men. Perhaps, with increasing unemployment and men out of work even in Wall Street the Somnolent Cambridge atmosphere may be acrid with the smoke of bullets...
...Fascist Government is not passive in the face of the present difficult situation, as vile anti-Fascist scandalmongers say. The government has its hand on the pulse of the nation and hears distress signals from whatever source they come. But not all can be saved and some indeed deserve to go to the bottom. The majority of the latter belong to the category-enormously increased during and after the War-of business improvisers, men more reckless than enterprising, acrobats of industry and finance, men supremely encyclopedic in their initiatives...
...retained in the play. This commonplace idyll of the Bronx begins with the very clinical seduction of Dot (Sylvia Sidney) by Eddie (Paul Kelly) in his hall-bedroom. They get married, await the birth of their child. Each, fearing that the other does not want the baby, pretends distress at its imminence. Not until after the child has been born-on- stage, by means of shadowgraph-and after a great deal of advice from Edna (Charlotte Winters), a well-meaning friend, do the inarticulate young couple reach a happy understanding. The shortcomings of Bad Girl are not attributable to poor...
...question of human distress is a matter of degree only," philosophized The Miller. "In that the export of wheat enables Russia to buy machinery and other merchandise, her increased grain sales may be considered a cause of gratification. There are citizens in the United States-the most prosperous country in the world-who lack food and clothing and other necessities of life, yet America can export when and how and at what price she likes without any cry of 'crime' being raised...
Regulations. In Washington 100 manufacturers and operators met with Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics Clarence Marshall Young to discuss proposed revisions in the air commerce regulations. The airplane manufacturers section of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce pleading for greater liberality to relieve the manufacturers' marketing distress, petitioned: I) that a student (meaning a prospective plane purchaser) be allowed to receive dual flight instruction from any transport pilot without a permit or physical examination; 2) that the cost of medical examination for private license be cut; 3) that the department resume its former practice of inspecting and test-flying...