Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born & bred in Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...fathers. He served as city scavenger and tax collector (acquiring a shortage on his books of ?7,000), married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong in the 1760's did he find an outlet for his talents. Democratic, at ease with commoners, he was at home in the turbulent groups of shipyard workers, mechanics, laborers, that were viewed with distrust by most men of his class...
...sell more insulating board than hard board but a steady accumulation of new uses for Presdwood has changed the story. Last year 100 carloads of Presdwood were sold to Hollywood producers for scene sets, 200 carloads to the automobile industry, another 200 carloads to trailer makers. A relatively new outlet is for concrete forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago...
Best answer to these warnings is that whatever Administration is in power for the next few years will use its best efforts to keep money cheap. And this argument is used by both commercial bankers, who are buying Government bonds because they can find no other outlet for their funds, and by investment bankers, who would like to see a cheap money era prolonged because it makes for a good bond market. Long periods of cheap money are not unprecedented. For 23 years from 1886 to 1909 British Government consols, a taxable security, never sold to yield more than...
Very similar in theme to "The Virgin and the Gypsy," "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and other of D. H. Lawrence's explorations into the libido, "Ecstasy" tells the story of a beautiful young girl in search of an outlet for her emotional cravings. In no sense obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such...