Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University officials on the other hand are convinced that the Employment Plan must go on and admit that they must turn to other departments for subsidization of the scheme. For a cooperative and satisfied working staff, the delving into the resources of other Corporation capital is not too high a price...
...United States can ask the League of Nations to transfer the Palestine mandate to them and our government, if not entirely bereft of its senses, will hand it over tied up with a blue ribbon and a courteous note of thanks for favors rendered," the newspaper said...
Across the country, as smart Jackson Elliott could see, the pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with...
...Lord Mayor of London, kindly Sir Harry Twyford, whose instant reaction to Munich was to start a charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted...