Word: highroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crepehangers have been routed out by optimism in the market places of the industrial East, and the country is started back on the highroad to good times. . . . Some of our friends . . . may think we have had an overdose of proximity with the famous Roosevelt personality. It is fine to be able to report that the President is in great fettle, hale and hearty, imbued with confidence, cheerful and relaxed, enjoying life and his big job to the fullest. We aver that our opinions are based upon broad observations. . . . But we can't deny that we are also influenced...
Harry Cowles' racqueteers cleaned up on the Union Boat Club yesterday with a score of 4-1. By winning this first play-off, they are thus on the highroad to the Class A championships, to be finally decided by the next match, which will be played Tuesday at the B.A.A. courts...
...turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring is not a blind alley but a recognized part of the highroad to academic honor and distinction...
...heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last was leaving for her Manhattan dramatic school. Micky was going to have a baby. The Author, in company with many a left-wing litterateur, has taken a modern highroad to Parnassus. He comes honestly by his industrial subject. After serving in the War with an ambulance corps, later in the French artillery, he worked nine months in a Canadian mill town, then as a bobbin-boy in a New Bedford, Mass. mill. When he sold his first short story...
...police are closing in on the convict-tycoon, the money in the lost suitcase begins to blow into the crowd, the grandstand collapses. ... At last peace: the factory is mechanized, the ex-workers engaged in mass lounging, fishing, dancing. The two heroes go off singing for pennies on the highroad of liberty...