Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be resumed again, with greater fury. In the parlous state of China's communications, not even Chungking knew the full situation. But in China's latest war crisis there was some hope that disaster had been staved off once again...
...answer to Cassandra was the same as it had always been: there was something in what she said about Troy's parlous position, but it was her kinsfolk who went on to found Rome...
...reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world division of labor. The result is the present world anarchy of tariffs, quota systems, prohibition of immigration, subsidized dumping of goods, competitive currency devaluation, armament races. For the parlous state of humanity Mises is inclined to blame the West as well as Germany. After all, he says, state interventionism in the economic process began in France and England...
...about 6,000,000) that for them the strip would end Aug. 21. Deathless Deer's authors took it bravely. They are Joe Patterson's pretty, shrewd daughter Alicia and Artist Neysa McMein (magazine covers) They planned to wind up Princess Deer's present parlous situation (she is accused of stabbing Baba Waring), have her say to her lover in the final syndicate installment: "See you after the war." The ladies were whistling in the dark. Deathless Deer was perhaps the most ineptly drawn of all comic strips. The dialogue was stupid and corny. Newsmen settled down...
...worst comes to worst, paper wrapping, or wood-packed shipments in bulk, can still substitute for a lot of burlap. But last week, hemp was in such a parlous state that the agricultural fantasy of the century was being seriously pushed in Washington. Commodity Credit Corp. hoped to obtain 240,000,000 lb. of home-grown hemp, 14 times the U.S.'s peak production in World War I. CCC has barely taken its first baby step in the program: persuading U.S. farmers to plant 35,000 acres of hemp for 350,000 bushels of seed. To achieve that goal...