Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worried by such Heimwehr-Schutzbund snarls, members of Chancellor Streeruwitz's cabinet finally announced that they would soon submit to Parliament proposals to change the Austrian Constitution in a way which might placate the reactionary Heimwehr yet be mild enough to win the grudging approval of the Socialist Schutzbund. Nettled by such temporizing, Heimwehr authorities in Vienna issued a sensational "Last Warning to Politicians"-a flat ultimatum to the Government of Chancellor Streeruwitz that a revolution will be staged within a fortnight unless he consents to the Heimwehr scheme of jamming through their Constitutional amendment...
Radios by G.M. The vast preferred stock dividends of General Motors Corp. have, for many a moon, been paid by profits from an iceless refrigerator-Frigidaire. Last week there was talk that radio-making might someday swell the profits of , this world's-biggest-money-making corporation. For, last week, General Motors discussed with Radio Corp. plans for using some of its available manufacturing equipment to turn out sets under R. C. A. patents. Also, last week, General Motors picked up a small ($13,000,000) electrical-equipment concern, Northeast Electrical Co. of Rochester. Already, indeed, General Motors makes radios...
...oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products of the recently acquired General Sea Foods, Inc., of Gloucester. But the chief...
...speaking of U. S. art students Painter Henri Matisse once said: 'They must be great artists, they must be geniuses, why cannot they content themselves with being painters. Then some day they might be good painters, perhaps...
...Steinach made a cautious suggestion to experimental biologists: "One may imagine that mental undevelopment might partially be related to the insufficient secretion of natural irritants required by the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is possible that diseases of the central nervous system are psychical anomalies which may be due to the lack of this stimulating secretion. In such cases therapeutic experiments with such an excitant might be attempted...