Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generators was entirely too decrepit to function. By next day three others had started, but one promptly broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they...
...final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...
...said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could no longer ignore the matter. For mild Judge St. Sure found "that Herbert Fleishhacker violated his trust to the Anglo Bank and its stockholders...
...author recognizes that young always have ideals, and he may agree that without such visions there can be no progress. In this post-war era youth has become aware of the cosmic problems of life, and his attitude towards the world is no longer that of a heedless child. For every fundamental obstacle to ultimate happiness he has formed many solutions, most of which are probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status...
...longer and more scholarly article we should insist that Professor Haring penetrate somewhat deeper into the difference between fascism and South American dictatorship but here, quite rightly he limits himself to raising the right questions...