Word: looming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TARIFFS. Plainly, if the States of Europe ever begin to trade like those of the U. S. ? that is without the balks and checks of tariffs between States ? then Europe, which already cuts below U. S. prices, should be able so to increase her efficiency as to loom as an appalling rival in the race for world trade...
...waxen Hindu dummy in a glass case dispensing prophecies on pasteboard, and a lot of cumbersome crank machines showing moving pictures of stout ladies in their lingerie. On one side are hot dog and penny-pitch booths, on the other is a cheap photographer's studio. High above loom the mazy timbers of a scenic railway...
...relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...
Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score...
Delhi, India, was the ancient capital of the Mogul Empire. Once the glittering bazaars along its Chandni Chauk (silver street) made it the richest thoroughfare in the world. Nearby still loom the three domes of the Jamma Musjid or Great Mosque, a fabulous and mighty shrine...