Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Lindsay, a Grenfell Mission worker, was teaching school at Cartwright, Labrador, a village some fifty miles south of Indian Harbor, where I was spending the summer. Thus I happen to know the facts in the case. She left one morning, with her bathing suit, saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that...
...these facts assembled from a complicated pattern in which the motif to stand out most obviously is a warning for the future. The strikes of last summer were tolerated only because people were short-sighted enough not to foresee the consequences. The same overnight is not likely to happen again...
...affect the price situation. Cancellaton of all such debts would obviously help the debtor countries to carry through policies of drastic deflation but would not necessarily mean that such policies would, or could, be adopted. On the other hand, if these debts are to be paid, it must inevitably happen that the price of international commodities will be higher in creditor than in debtor nations, since otherwise payment cannot be made. Deflation in the creditor nations must, therefore, mean severe presure upon debtor countries; while inflation leading to higher prices would obviously ease the strain of international payments...
Liners will soon cross the Atlantic in a day and a half. Fords speed along at the rate of one hundred miles an hour, and all sorts of other wonderful things happen in the way of breaking speed limits. In addition, one hundred and fifty heavy parts will no longer be needed in the automobile, so that here-after heavy cars will ascend into the Franklin class and the Franklin will turn into a balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome...
...Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because they happen to speak French, is manifestly unfair...