Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public agencies first have to sign loan agreements with the Government before they see a cent of cash. Then they have to survey their project again, advertise for bids, pick a contractor. The contractor, in turn, has to order his materials, assemble work crews. This routine explains why the flow of public works cash was still only an insignificant trickle last week and why, despite hopeful headlines, the country still has to wait weeks, perhaps months, to feel the full effects of this enormous spending program...
...headed into the vicinity of this disturbance last week when he went to Harrisburg to deliver an NRA "pep" speech. Taking Pennsylvania's labor troubles and the stiff-necked anti- union attitude of mine owners as his text, he cried: "I don't see why blood should flow and men refuse to talk to one another when the whole world is trying to get to gether. You can't get together with a man by throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil himself if I thought there was a chance of making hell...
...find the true measure of Professor Babbitt. Grief, especially for an intellectual enemy, is likely to be brief, and the world of letters will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains...
...battles in the Civil War-all things learned in his boyhood. But recent events the banker could date only as before or after his son's death in an automobile accident. At every mention of that personal tragedy the banker "trembles strongly, his face gets red, the tears flow, he perspires and seems to lose control...
...during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...