Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the humility that I can muster, I assure Mr. Anen, that I sincerely doubt if the "Saturday Review" would "not only welcome, but publish a sensible criticism of its policies." Even if my doubt were removed. I should hesitate to disturb the peace in which the "superannuated professors" broad in one of their few stamping grounds. For these professors and their opinions have a real value as Early Americana, and I have always suffered from the collector's passion. H. M. Wade...
Senator Thomas and the monetary diehards are having it back and forth with a fine gusto about whether the Treasury shall reap the four billion or so of reward if the dollar is devalued. The best argument that the outraged sound money men seem able to muster is the moral one that no government should appropriate something for nothing in this cavalier fashion. Whereas Senator Thomas and the rest fight for devaluation and confiscation of the gold profit as if the four billion dollars were essential to the financing of the recovery program...
Moreover, and even despite the fine clothes which inflation must apparently wear in order to pass muster before the sound money men, it is a little discouraging to see a lot of people in the west turning out to waste their lives scraping up tid-bits of metal which are hard to find and which will never serve a useful purpose...
...hearted at bottom, he was only indulging in squirely politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt to use the New Deal as a club to bring the rest into line...
Featuring the boxing tournament was the final round of the last bout, when W. C. Brister 1GB and Samuel Zemurray 1GB, both clever boxers of the unlimited class, let go with everything they could muster. But with relentless punches, Zemurray battered his opponent, who had already had one bout that evening, to gain a well earned decision. The only technical knockout came when E. C. Ihrig 1L, who is also well-known as a wrestler, beat down B. C. McDonald...