Word: flex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate voted to take from the President his present power to flex tariff rates 50% up or down...
Tariff things so far done by the Senate: inclusion of the Export Debenture Plan; exclusion of the President's power to flex rates 50% up or down; increases in agricultural rates; decreases in industrial rates. Tariff things undone: rate changes on sugar, dyes, paper, textiles et al; revision of the free list...
...foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift yet languid twitch of both eye brows together...
...Corning Glass and the clear Vita Glass are as transparent to the visible rays as is window glass. Vita Glass is furnished also in a translucent ("cathedral") form which is particularly suitable where privacy is desired. Cel-O-Glass and Flex-O-Glass are not transparent, but the data presented show their comparative value for use in solariums and for animal husbandry in cases in which transparency is not essential. Both of these substances are less expensive than ordinary window glass, but the Flex-O-Glass does not withstand the onslaught of the weather as well as does...
...made by Vio-Ray Co., Kansas City, Mo., is like FLEX-O-GLASS...