Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired the whole Italian staff of technicians, made a sucker out of the great Italian electrical firm of Ansaldo Lorenz...
...what the "Aryan" man deems to be right; legal wrong is what he rejects.' " By this arrangement of German Justice, a situation is created which soft-spoken James Grover McDonald feels ought to cause the Great Powers to deal with Germany in a manner "friendly but firm...
...Reality. It was presently evident that, as often happens in the case of honest Stanley Baldwin, he did not mean his words in the sense conveyed by their sound to non-Britons. They implied that the Government, since it stands where it has always stood, had not upon that firm basis turned around. It had thus turned and the turning was the whole point of the Prime Minister's speech, but he had expressed himself like Humpty Dumpty.* A few minutes later, some 500 words further along, he told the House not to put too much trust in Sanctions...
...Foreign Minister of the firm of Masaryk & Benes which is Czechoslovakia, he has forged the three minor nations of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) into a unit armed to the teeth, which clicks and functions with the weight of important Power on the international scene. But Dr. Benes is not a hero to his political valets in Czechoslovakia. Last week Premier Milan Hodza in his handsome speech accepting the President's resignation avoided any pledge to support...
Fortnight ago, a chill spell made firm the flooded tennis courts of the Park Avenue Skating Club. Grateful for the chance to exhibit her wares outdoors, Skater Vinson spun gracefully through the air, displayed startling designs to admirers. Finishing an elementary figure-eight, she suddenly teetered, screeched, bumped her bottom. Undamaged, Maribel Vinson rose, caressed her billowing skirts into place, twirled proudly...