Word: regains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other countries, and that the resulting economic stimulus and improvement in the world will lessen the burdens placed upon governments. Further, the improved opportunity and the increased hope which the enlarged international trade will bring should favor the maintenance of peace. It is imperative that all peoples regain the realization that through trade their condition can be improved, and that on the other hand, war can bring nothing but misery to all participants. The leadership of governments is needed to again draw men's attention to the excellent chances of bettering their condition by peaceful economic effort, in contrast...
...Chang's troops had gone over to the Red State last week and strong Nanking forces under General Ku Chu-tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed last week over whether he could deliver...
...made little corporations out of big ones. The tall, husky, 40-year-old inventor took his enterprises into Aviation Corp. when that big holding company was formed in 1929. At the end of two years Mr. Fairchild had had enough of the boomtime merger, arranged for his company to regain its independence. Since then he has collected for Fairchild a notable roster of executive and engineering talent, including such names as Col. John H. Jouett, famed "father of the Chinese air force"; James S. Ogsbury, a high-powered onetime International Business Machine executive; Col. Virginius Evans Clark, successively chief aeronautics...
...fateful feature of this meeting that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, officially described as "weakened by his recent attack of chicken pox," had just gone from Geneva to Monte Carlo "to regain his strength"; that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was in his third month of "resting in the country"; and that the British Chairman of the International Committee, Treasury Expert William ("Shakespeare") Morrison, was at Geneva...
Hayden Channing, captain of the team, will be given an opportunity to regain the prestige which he temporarily lost by his bad showing in the Holy Cross meet when he finished last due mainly to a cold encurred during the week. Bill Wright, Charley Worth, Henry Marcy, and Johnny Day, who finished in that order last week, will all be running and attempting to gain higher ranking or show that what they did against the Purple can be expected of them any time...