Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band...
Harvard's Eight Old Men faced a forbidding task when they embarked on their investigation of appointment and tenure in May of 1937. Not only because of the tremendous size of the undertaking. But also because they were required to hand down a verdict on the hopes and fears of men with whom they no longer had anything in common. They, the judges, were famed professors, secure in position and reputation, and peculiarly exposed to conservatism. The young instructors before the bar were strugglers in a morass of uncertainty and ignorance about the future...
...posse of 80 Wyoming and Montana law officers set out after Earl Durand. They moved warily. They knew he was more than a match for any of them hand-to-hand or at far rifle range. The law calculated Wyoming's greatest manhunt in years might last a while...
...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...
...scuttle of coke, a picture of soldiers, a bi cycle saddle attached to the back, twelve marbles on a flat plate, a package of dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon to themselves...