Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus President Hoover, with an engineer's contempt for diplomatic mincing around the brush, called on the Geneva Conference last week to hurry up and do something to justify its long French name: La conference pour la limitation et la reduction des armements...
When the sandblasting was over. Dr. France tried to get to the rostrum himself. Protesting about "his rights," he was bundled off by policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
...Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring at the source, when, as a little girl she had watched R. move into an apartment across the hall from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women...
...College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...
...gamble, whether or not business in America has entirely succumbed to the entreaties of the economists and business experts for lower tariffs to rejuvenate trade. Why would not lower duties in the United States allow floods of commodities to pour in from outside nations that are badly in need of markets? If a readjustment in business relations is to take place, it seems a valid argument that manufacturers in the United States, with their higher costs, and more expanded production capacities, should be reluctant to speak for lower duties. In a run-down world where business expansion seems temporarily ended...