Word: falterer
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...sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation and Accepts the Supernatural." Last week Bryan demonstrated it would not falter. Henceforth matriculants will be obliged to pledge themselves as follows...
...redeemed at the Treasury. He and President Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite and inflation are dangerous to handle, but there are times when an appalling necessity demands their...
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...transport operators scowled last spring when they saw the upward march of passenger traffic falter and temporarily retreat. They were heartened by a 20% increase for the full year 1931. Last week they beamed when it was announced that traffic for the first quarter of 1932 was 31% up. Even the fact that Depression had nibbled away 4% of their air mail poundage failed to quench their delight...
...operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...