Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred, he norrowed ten dollars from a friend and left early the next morning. In Minea, New York, on Wednesday, he was arrested by railroad police. Before a justice of the peace be paid a two dollar fine and promised that he would steal no more rides...
Scene of much happy bustling last week was the old brownstone mansion on sedate James Street that houses the Syracuse (N. Y.) Museum of Fine Arts. Cause: the assembling, judging and opening of the eighth annual National Ceramic Exhibition. For ceramists, the occasion was excuse for a jolly get-together, as well as a chance to see what other designers were up to. Lay folk could admire and be amused by the assorted exhibits. Sum of their reaction: bric-a-brac is coming back...
...they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...glad to see you look so fine...
...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...