Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussia is firm in my hands!" he shouted. "Hitler is stronger than ever. Most of the Storm Troopers are loyal. They were merely misled." He then sketched hastily the vague outlines of a plot supposed to have had for its object the kidnapping of Adolf Hitler who was to have been forced to sign a paper turning Germany over for three days to the violence of Storm Troops. In an official printed release General Göring declared...
...exports or imports. 2) As long as any part of a loan is outstanding, the borrowing company may not pay dividends, salaries or bonuses which the RFC considers unreasonable. 3) The borrower must agree not to spend any of his loan on machinery, equipment or services supplied by a firm which does not pledge allegiance...
...department store, a beauty products laboratory, a baby food company, a pencil company, a film office, the Society of Authors and a boarding house. Resembling magazine rolls, two were opened and detonated, wounding three postal clerks and an automobile employe. Wrapped in the catalog of a St. Etienne munitions firm, each bomb contained the message: "We will strike the French people without distinction as to age. sex or rank, until they realize their cowardice, before the great pirates deprive them of the right to be severe toward ordinary criminals and stealers of handkerchiefs...
Late that evening his family grew worried and telephoned the consulate. The consulate waited an hour or two before leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he been kidnapped? Had he been murdered? Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo...
...good fame shall be to three so noble crown of bays" drew a picture of the relation of success in later life to one's college. John Cotton Walcott '34 in his Ode pictured the purpose of Harvard is education to "First spur our intellect, home of our will, firm keep they face...