Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacking capitalism all along the line and defeating it. Without foreign capital we are accomplishing the unprecedented feat of building up heavy industry in a backward country. This year our capital investment in industry will amount to 3,500,000,000 rubles (about...
Singing came into line naturally then; Robeson's voice had always been splendidly full and smooth, contributing immeasurably to the power of his speaking performances. In 1925, with Negro Pianist Lawrence Brown, he gave his first recital of spirituals-another success. Soon after he went abroad...
...never become so weirdly out of touch with reality as prophets-after-the-event were quick to label them. Given a profound conviction that the future of U. S. industry was boundless, that there was no limit to the potential value of U. S. securities, where could the line be drawn between farsightedness and folly? Speculation is the shadow of industry thrown forward on the wall of the future. It had been thrown a long way forward during the late Bull Market, its size swollen, its perspective distorted. But though it was a magnified picture, it was not an imaginary...
...fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...
John Coolidge, dutiful newlywed clerk of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., read in the road's monthly house organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...