Word: linke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee to dig up and magnify into a sinister link with the "power trust...
...strength of the chain had been the strength of its strongest link, American Exchange, which had held deposits from all the other banks, swept them down when it fell...
...Fred D. Pasley, onetime rewrite man for the Chicago Tribune, often collaborator with Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. Author Pasley seems to know his gangs. He portrays the rise to a tycoondom of vice of once obscure Hoodlum Capone, gives it a macabre grandeur. Author Pasley does not hesitate to link the Big Shot himself to many a gruesome murder. Final sentence of his biography...
...great pieces of Babylonian naturalistic without being imitative, and conventionalized without being studied. It has neither the dull realism of much of the late Assyrian works nor the unnatural grotesqueness of many early Sumerian works; coming in the era that it does one finds it a link between early mannerisms and late realism which takes the best from both new and old and emerges a true work...
...such contests as today's closely link Harvard in cordial relations with its neighbors the shadow of the Athletic Association's avowed rotating schedule policy looms ominous in the under-graduate mind. The result of long standing intercollegiate rivalry is to give certain games a permanent place on the schedule. It is not altogether comfortable to have to realize that a rotating policy remains somewhere in the background as a potential rude interruption to the natural course of events...