Word: labyrinthes
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...management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits, was up to his ears in trouble...
...United States threw its full authority tonight behind a plan to control all manufactures and sales of munitions, advanced as a short cut throughout the labyrinth of European politics toward the ultimate goal of disarmament...
...thwarted ambitions had a committee of the American Bar Association which last week pointed out in Chicago: ". . . Federal administrative agencies exercising judicial in combination with legislative and executive powers are substituting a labyrinth in which the rights of individuals, while preserved in form, can easily be nullified in practice. It is estimated that one Federal administrative agency alone, the NIRA, has been responsible for 10,000 or more pages of pronouncements, supposedly having the effect of law, in the period of one year, a total which greatly exceeds the volume of all Federal statutes now in effect. . . .* Under these circumstances...
...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...
Like the African lung fish, the climbing perch is a specialist. Living in hot, often foul, water holes, it has developed a sort of auxiliary "lung" (labyrinth) that enables it to utilize atmospheric air instead of the oxygen in the water, which is too low under such conditions to sustain piscatorial life...