Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throgmorton Street. Soon the expected fact appeared that the fall of the pound was occasioning a rise in the price of securities quoted in pounds. Once this law of nature was tested and found to be working properly, London 'Change was opened with a boom. Government bonds were firm, industrials soared, British bankers relaxed and grew self-righteous. "There can be just as much integrity," ran an unctuous phrase heard often in the City last week, "there can be just as much integrity in a pound worth $4 as in a pound worth $4.86." British tourists fussed and fumed...
This elation has its firm basis, as President Hibben intimated, in an understanding sense of the situation. it is not related etymologically to the more ancient word meaning elasticity, which gave Linnacus the name for a family or genus of beetles "possessing the power of springing upward from a supine position for the purpose of falling upon their feet." Elation is a state of exultant, unceasing struggle for the highest things of the human mind and soul. The colleges and universities may become centres of such "elation" amid the world's depression. New York Times...
...pamphlet laying before the American public a statement of the facts and significance of the Sine-Japanese crisis in Manchuria was issued yesterday by the Harvard Chinese Students Club. The club, meeting in the Phillips Brooks House on September 26 resolved "to urge strong action and firm attitude on the part of the Chinese government, and to appeal on behalf of their country to the judgment of the world for adequate support to vindicate humanity and justice...
...news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert, was sued by her former secretary, Frank Evans, for $300,000. He charged slander, ruin in body, health and mind, alleged that under the widow's guidance he prepared fraudulent income statements for her. The famed Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was named codefendant...
...pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm. It was a shock when just before her wedding to Pell she discovered Clarabut was alive after all. But Susan decided not to let her Career founder on such a little rock, went ahead with...