Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affords an opportunity for at least a temporary rest from the feverish activity of the last three years. The regarding of industrial production is being enforced by the government, as a political move for strengthening the popularity of the communist party, by giving the working classes a chance to regain their energy. It is also using this opportunity to improve general welfare," Professor Hopper continued...
Their smallness does not permit them to operate effectively at the stage to which college education has now advanced. More money will do little good. The only way in which they can regain their usefulness is by combining until they reach the large scale which education now requires...
...Associated Press omitted one important cause of Belgium's prosperity, her African colonies. Much water has flowed under many bridges since the bold bad days of King Leopold and the rubber atrocities in the Congo. Today the Belgian Congo produces no rubber (plantation rubber is being cultivated to regain the market that wild Congo rubber once commanded), but it does produce enough coffee and cotton to fill a large part of Belgium's needs. Palm nuts and palm oil are the most important assets of the colony, mining excepted...
...girl whose full name, so far as it is revealed to the audience, is Nikki (Helen Chandler). The time is just after the Armistice, the scene is Paris, later Lisbon. The aviators, in a state of nervous disorder produced by their experiences in the War, are trying to regain their composure by conducting a light-headed patrol of Paris barrooms. They are so engaged when they come upon Nikki near the door of a crowded saloon holding, with a rapt expression, as though it were a chalice, a cocktail glass containing a set of false teeth. In company with...
...dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line for his own epitaph: "Died in his infancy...