Word: expand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...words of such a man are not to be taken lightly. At London, last week, apropos of the Experts' Plan and the jeopardized future of British trade, he said in effect: "By the Experts' Plan it was hoped to expand British trade and find work for our million unemployed. But a Franco-German trade agreement may well offset this expected result." The Chancellor went on to make a veiled attack upon the Premier which was construed as meaning that Mr. MacDonald must rely more upon his Ministers and less upon himself; for it had become known that...
That is, hardly ever. When Mr. Heath gazed majestically around upon the seven daughters with whom, in course of time, he was blessed, he could be seen to expand with the proud air of one who has nobly done his duty...
...that if the topmost bud of a tree is blighted, lower buds at once begin to develop to take its place. Many members of the Democratic Party arrived at the opinion that the topmost Presidential bud, William G. McAdoo, had suffered from oil. Thereupon several other buds began to expand on their own merits, and, flushed with hope, to burgeon...
President H. B. Thayer, of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., speaking of the contract with the Radio Corporation, declared of the latter enterprise: "The effect has not been to restrain trade, but to expand...
...them in idleness and spend great sums in doles. A child can see that; the only trouble has been in the opposition of rich men in the older parties. There is much discontent in England. Your country is so big and there is still land for your people to expand over. It doesn't mean so much to be unemployed here as it does in England...