Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nobody's business and yet is everybody's business is expected at the White House, it is rumored. . . ." The Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, ran two pictures of the Coolidges, was careful to say: "Inquiry among attaches of the White House has failed,however, to elicit confirmation of the story." Characteristic of these two journals was their employment, in the headlines, of the delicately definitive word "stork...
...change, although unexpected, nevertheless failed to elicit selling except to a minor extent in the bond market. It was generally taken to indicate the end of the period of very easy money which has prevailed in Manhattan since last summer; and also the long way that financial and industrial recovery has traveled since that time. Evidently the familiar "business cycle" has not become nonoperative through the plethora of funds. Evidence accumulates that large amounts of credit will be taken up by agricultural efforts this spring to plant large crops at high prevailing prices, and by considerable commercial expansion. Also...
...unsatisfactory conditions relating to state and local taxation in this country continue to elicit protests from prominent business organizations. Between 1921 and 1923, U.S. Federal taxes have been reduced about a billion dollars, and should continue to decrease in the future by the steady retirements of Liberty Bonds from European debt payments. State and local taxation, however, presents a very different case. Lavish borrowing by the issuance of tax-exempt bonds has been the order of the day ever since the armistice. In 1919, state and local governments in this country borrowed $691,000,000; by 1923, they were borrowing...
...with thankful hearts that the public begins to see the Oil-Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...
...campaign of the year in his talk on the "Choice of a Career." In the past the undergraduate has had a right to complain that the College was not helping him directly in his most difficult problem. His criticism is being met and in the future his complaints will elicit no sympathy. Tonight he will have the very opportunity which he has been demanding--the opportunity to hear from a man eminently qualified to speak on the subject the reasons on which to base a wise "choice of a career...