Word: employs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tariffs Into Law. Though a few Conservatives grumbled that Mr. Runciman had not pledged his Board to up tariffs the full, authorized 100% but to employ "discretion" in every case, the bill passed first, second and final readings in both Houses of Parliament last week by majorities of from 250 to 400, its swift passage being so certain that many M. P.s did not trouble to vote. In vain Old George Lansbury, leader of the puny Labor Opposition, cackled: "There is no ground or occasion for this departure from the established custom of the House of Commons to take plenty...
Aristide Briand, foxy old French Foreign Minister, suggested "intervention of the United States, either independently or in collaboration with the League," a suggestion which President Hoover ignored and which made Senator Borah shout: "This proposal from Paris to intervene-in other words to employ force, for that is what it means in the settlement of the Manchurian affair-seems incredible...
Since 1929, when the call rate averaged 7.792%, banking profits have diminished, largely because they can find no place to employ their surplus funds. Brokers' loans last week made a new low since 1921, gave the Clearing House an opportunity to make its reform with little chance of repercussions. Bankers were pleased and a wobbly prop was removed from under the credit structure. With the New York Clearing House leading the way similar rulings were expected in other money centres to prevent loan 'legging from starting again...
...fairness to the Library, and out of respect to the wishes of Archibald Coolidge, as well as for the sake of policy and precedent, the corporation ought to employ the interest of the amount not to relieve its own outlay, but to better in some way the University Library...
...liner who asked Aiken: "What's your line?" he replied: "Blank verse!" Aiken's ambition is to write "a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry in which the intention is not so much to arouse an emotion, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same cool detachment with which a composer employs notes or chords." Other books: Punch, the Immortal Liar, Pilgrimage of Festus, Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems, John Deth and Other Poems, Blue Voyage (a novel), Bring! Bring! (short stories...