Word: lied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prices. Anticipating a buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...
Written as the by-product of an eminently successful scientific foray, this volume is not a handbook or history of the country. But as an absorbing narrative, it does succeed in giving us much of the flavor of a land where alarm clocks lie buried with emperors and it is good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over...
...seldom does the general public realize the tedious preliminaries which lie behind extended exploration. In this case over a year was spent in careful planning and equipment was sent to the cast from London six months ahead. Personnel is another perplexing problem and Mr. Coolidge deserves praise for handling pugnacious gun-bearors and sly Laotian hunters who tried to cheat him by selling him pheasants they had shot while in his employ. This book should be of local interest not only because its authors are both Harvard men but because Mr. Coolidge's zoological training resulted in part from...
...concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...
Frederick the Great: "We command that the Jews in the smaller towns, especially those which lie in the country, and which can be harmed most by Jews, be sent away...