Word: irks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Martin had not been conspicuous enough to irk the Old Guard, had simultaneously earned the warm regard of liberals by his solid good sense, extraordinary knowledge. Obvious choice for chairman of the new board, he soon became the obvious choice for president. At first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks...
...four months (3,000,000 bbl.). The Treasury was pleased to find all the bids different; the industry was upset because each maker knows that if his bid is too high he will lose out to some competitor for the Government's business, if too low it will irk his commercial customers still buying under the old system...
...wildfowler it is not the long winter evenings but the long summer ones that irk...
...time has come for the University to step in and settle the question once and for all, and the commuters have the answer. Segregation may be harmful, but until the Houses decide to admit commuters as "associate members," the present muddled state of affairs will continue to irk the non-resident students...
Marseilles. The toughest city west of Suez is ardently, definitely Socialist and will take no dictatorship from Paris. Despite the Government's best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect...