Word: protractedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the protracted struggle in the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.) the Emergency Taxation Bill, which had since the fall of the franc become indispensable to the negotiation of the loan of $100,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., faced the possibility of defeat in the...
The nature of the present Parliament foreordains a protracted period of political unrest until another general election comes to act as a panacea.
Presupposing success for the Obregonistas, the civil war, if fought to a finish, is sure to be a protracted affair. Each army as it retires destroys the railway lines, thus hindering an advance.
In the Palace of the King. This slice of the cinema Outline of History takes the spectator for a protracted visit to Spain in the 16th Century. To afford opportunity for a vast and valuable display of costumes, helmets and architecture, a love story with familiar portions of jealousy and...
Every figure in the story of Felix is defined with simple, unerring strokes. No character so much as shoves his nose in that he is not promptly pinned down and held up for inspection. We know them all and like practically all of them- Felix himself, sensitive, delightfully vain, adroit...