Word: knits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People say that the bull market of the last four years has caused an over valuation of all stocks. I don't think this is true. It was true in 1922 when industry was overinventoried. But in the closely knit organization of business today stock prices can't far overrun their real demonstrable value...
...Chicago district, a boy, seven, fell off his front steps, was taken to a hospital. "What's your name?" asked the interne. Said the youngster: "Orange." A nurse brought him an orange. ''What's your name?" asked she. "Apple," replied the seven-year-old. Brows knit, the nurse looked in the telephone book, summoned Orange Apple Sr., father of the child...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...large, loose-knit man born 65 years ago in Bethany, Ill., Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment...
...study at the Community Church in New York, once known as the Church of the Messiah, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes knit his brows over a sermon he was preparing for Christmastide. He had his notions about this man Jesus...