Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
...challenge the constitutionality of New York State's unemployment insurance law. Since last January the law has exacted a 1% payroll tax (which will increase to 2% in 1937, 3% in 1938) from all employers of four or more persons. From the fund thus created, workers who lose their jobs after next year will, following a three-week wait, get $5 to $15 per week for not more than 16 weeks...
After their campaign labors, the following politicians made or planned the following moves: Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James...
...protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose emblem last week some 275,000 New Yorkers voted for Roosevelt and Lehman. Red Browder had proclaimed from the start that his Party's ambition was to lose its identity in a national Farmer-Labor Party in 1940. Last week in Chicago...
...uses as a vehicle for the expression of his own religious personality. His D minor Symphony is perhaps the best example of this religious feeling which almost reaches an ecstasy at times. The work has three movements, all scored in an harmonic style so rich that it tends to lose its effectiveness on repeated hearings...