Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefits claimed for it are vastly increased water power and an economically profitable water outlet for continental produce, both American and Canadian...
...passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor...
...heartily approve of intercollegiate sports, and I certainly would hate to see athletic contests with other colleges abolished. As for over emphasis, it does not exist at either Yale or Harvard. I am a firm believer in intramural athletics; for there should be some outlet for those undergraduates who like to indulge in athletic games but either have not the ability or else the desire to be on a varsity...
...Grand Chaco is in itself a completely worthless piece of territory, comprising jungles and waste land for the most part. Unfortunately for Paraguay it borders on the Paraguay River. Hence, if Bolivia could gain control of it she would have a much coveted outlet to the sea, the lack of which has been keenly felt by that country since Chile closed the Pacific to her. Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost...
...afford to have her markets cut off in this summary fashion; it would mean, quite simply, that she would not be able to make both ends meet. For Japan this is not merely a dispute over a lucrative trade but a veritable fight for economic life. Denied her present outlet she must expand elsewhere--which can mean only China, and inevitable collision with Russia...