Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...totally new attitude toward industry and the economic system. The romance and adventure are gone out of business. There are no more great fortunes to be made. No more Astors, Harrimans, Carnegies, Insulls, Fords. The great days of building a country are over. Business must settle down to the prosaic job of turning out goods...
...which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin to be surveyor-in-chief. Stocky, prosaic Surveyor Hedin planned last week to take over his eight-month...
...removal. They must present a candidate acceptable to the U. S. Until last week the five different parties that form the anti-Machado junta in New York had just one point in common: a burning desire to take every Machado appointee out and shoot him. Faced with the prosaic necessity of organizing a real government, they were thrown into greatest confusion. They remained locked in conference rooms in Manhattan's Hotel Ansonia, arguing themselves hoarse. Growth of a Tyrant. For a fortnight bellicose Representative Hamilton Fish has been rumbling about U. S. intervention in Cuba and denouncing the backing...
...public who bought a million shares of preferred stock at $50 and a million shares of common at $17.50. The rest was supplied by Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp., each of which acquired 2,000,000 shares of common. No prosaic name had this huge trust. Mr. Williams in his wife's honor named it after her beloved Shenandoah Valley. Magnificent was Shenandoah's reception in July of 1929; in a few days the stock issued for $17,500,000 was valued...
Deploring, polling, and circulating petitions have been the immemorial prerogatives of the collegiate journalist. To damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were...