Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Builder Ley: "The five-day week is inevitable." True, he referred to the building trades in New York City. But five-day-week advocates everywhere cheered his statement, cheered even more loudly when he added that "The five-day movement has gained a real foothold and its adoption may reach throughout the country." A national five-day week would make Saturday leisure equal to Sunday; would give to millions of U. S. car-owning workers an additional day of relaxation, refreshment. Thus merchants of food, drink and transportation beamed and smiled...
...concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above...
...teams of the past few years. Rising from the uncertainty of a mediocre season, it outplayed at every angle a Blue team stamped as immeasureably its superior by those who know. While the annual series is only just begun, the Harvard team has gained the psychological advantage in a foothold from which it will be dislodged with difficulty...
Early in 1928, Manufacturers' Trust, which had gained control of the 116-year-old Bank of America, sold control to the A. P. Giannini interests, giving A. P. Giannini a Wall Street foothold. On Oct. 1, 1928, Manufacturers' Trust had resources of $356,000,000; deposits...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...