Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obviously it was most important that some experienced and competent investigator should attempt to find out, before these natives became submerged in industrialism, their varying capacities for absorbing European civilization without being poisoned...
...When a man of unusual endowment has stayed with a job for nearly eight years as Mr. Hoover did he knows more about it than anybody else. It is my intention to find out his ideas and visions and to carry out those policies...
Trading in election futures was brisk, last week, on the Royal Exchange. Such trading, Englishmen like to think, is not "betting on the election." Certainly the thing is done in London with a flair and a nice decorum equaled nowhere else on earth. Indeed most U. S. citizens would find themselves flabbergasted if asked to devise the machinery for placing bets on an election which has so many queer features (General Parliamentary Election, TIME...
...were added to the then prevailing Liberal figure of 62. Thus the shrewd merchants of London's "City" showed what they fear will be the effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March 11), in which he promised to find work for virtually all of Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed-and this without increasing taxes! Though the speech was branded at once as pure demagogy by disinterested editors throughout the U.S. and Europe, the London stock exchange figures coldly suggested, last week, that Welsh David had made a big killing...
...Southern stables, but odd things happen to horses, and many prime jockies do not ride there. Touts peddling tips are numerous and all offer the gambling tourist a sure thing on every race. Yet even touts in their surpassing wisdom disappear mysteriously toward the paddock between races to find "which ones are trying...