Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India his regime has been marked by firm yet temperate dealings with the followers of Gandhi, who are ever fomenting their "passive revolution" into an attempted boycott of Western civilization. His reply to the Nationalist demand for an immediate revision of the Constitution was: "The re-examination of the Constitution may take place when the British...
Almost every year some energetic undergraduate or group of undergraduates in some college conceives the idea that the collegiate opinion of the U. S. needs "crystallizing" on some issue or other. There is a firm precedent for nationwide undergraduate straw ballots on the League of Nations, presidential candidates, Prohibition, disarmament, the lecture system, chapel attendance, etc. Usually the organizer and his fellows are connected with an undergraduate newspaper which they wish to make famous for its feats in their year, or they are bent upon making a name for themselves, or they are inspired by a faculty idealist, or they...
...Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly. Striking as an experiment...
...case at issue was a suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible...
...Milford Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves is no more. After functioning for one hundred and thirty years in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it has at last yielded to the firm grasp of finality. To all appearances the vigilantes of the state have no longer fear of the horse thief. He has gone the way of all the figures of a less mechanical past. So the Irish leader of the English stage can arrange no more "She wings of Blascos". Like the dodo, Shaw's hero has become extinct...