Search Details

Word: incurables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Though a preventive war with the support of England was unthinkable, action on the part of the other Powers might have meant chaos at home, rather than incur which threat he probably would have been quite willing to retreat to "previously prepared positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/20/1935 | See Source »

...pledge, amplified and stressed as it has been throughout the country, will be measured by its fulfillment. And there can be little doubt that any such program is economically impossible within the framework of an unsubsidized German capitalist system. Either the state can take over the automobile industry and incur the tremendous losses which this attempt at vastly cheaper production would entail, or Hitler will have to recant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...tell each small businessman, made this stock ineligible as collateral for loans either at banks or brokerage offices. The local corporation might get it listed on some registered exchange but, if so, the corporation officers would be brought directly under the power of the Federal Trade Commission and would incur all the contingent liabilities provided for in the proposed law. Mr. Whitney's whole argument was based on the idea that the little businessman would feel the pinch of the Exchange Bill just as much as the big businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Read the Bill! | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

Because professional sport lives on publicity, sporting personages rarely incur the enmity of the Press with libel suits. This may have aided more than one sports writer like the late Ring Lardner, Joe Williams, William McGeehan and Paul Gallico (who will replace Pegler on the Chicago Tribune Syndicate) to perfect sarcastic styles. It is unlikely that a wider field will decrease Pegler's eloquence or his impatience. He plans to-call his new column "Sweetness and Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sweetness & Light | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...necessity they subordinated foreign debts, tariffs, jobless relief, railroads, public works and the large variety of panaceas put forward by more imaginative but less substantial citizens. Bernard Mannes Baruch had sounded the keynote the opening day: "Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt. . . . No nation ever dared to incur deficits as large as ours. The suspicion is growing that we do not really intend to balance the budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Prelude to Power | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next