Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring it was evident that a reciprocal treaty with Japan would take a long time to arrange, yet it might not be long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan...
...distribution kept at a minimum if any company is to survive and make a profit. New uses for materials must be discovered, new products developed, and old products must be revamped and refurbished to meet and to whet the public taste for novelty and perfection. Back of this feverish struggle to excel, to beat the other fellow, to win customers, is the intensive search for and investigation of facts which we call research. It is a function applying to all activities of business and industry...
...booms are usually just around the corner. Last week with Depression vanishing into memory, the portents of BOOM drummed excitingly throughout the land. Declared the president of the potent New York State Council of Retail Merchants, John C. Watson, in a Manhattan speech: "We are moving into a feverish time of activity during which our business machine is likely to become more complicated than ever. The boom stage is not here yet but we are so near it that we have no time to lose in getting ready to meet it." Indeed, retailers are expecting to meet the boom this...
...waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt's memoirs have an almost symphonic symmetry: they begin at the moment of the Empire's greatest strength and trace its collapse in the swirl of defeats, treacheries, frustrations, massed chances, which followed one another faster than...
...Whites and Reds. Dispatches from seasoned London correspondents reported "The British are aghast. ... To the British at least there is a world of difference between a trickle of arms sent furtively to Spain and open rivalry that would flood the country with war material. . . . Dismay in London tonight." Amid feverish excitement British Broadcasting Co. put on the air that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, as Acting Prime Minister, had just promised Labor Party leaders that Britain would join Russia in considering herself no longer bound by the Non-intervention Pact if the charges that it had been violated were...