Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulties incidental to the coming of Repeal seem to be working themselves out with the expected amount of trouble, shilly-shally, and inconvenience, so far as the nation is concerned; the situation of the College in regard to the liquorous flow, however, is marked not by confusion on the part of the authorities, but by a glassy silence. The problems which had inevitably to arise on consideration of the Dining Halls to Repeal were precipitated last night, when several students took wine into their Hall. Obviously, if this practice of bringing liquor into meals without the sanction of University officials...
...Saturday evenings or on Sundays the filters themselves can be cleaned by forcing the water back through them. Some waste escapes through the over flow gutters, which are closed, however, during meets to assure a quiet surface...
...statement to Dow, Jones, and Co. in New York, Secretary-on-leave Woodin assured Wall-Streeters that the government was not aiming at "recovery without profits." Further music to moneyed ears was the proposition advanced in his Boston speech by budget-balancer Douglas that recovery necessitates "a free flow of capital into legitimate business enterprises." Both were generally interpreted as indirect assurances to the recalcitrant banking world that Santa Claus will probably bring Administration support for a change in the Securities...
...speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that the Administration was "guilty of great experimentation" in its efforts to harness the tide...
...feels with the audience that he had better get on to his business. Each of the six queens is dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither ebb nor flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial...