Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitting ever to have cooked horsemeat, Brooklyn's Pratt Institute declared last week that the tender cuts should be broiled like beef. Less tender cuts, meat for the poorest of the poor, should be scored, pounded and marinated in oil & vinegar, pot-roasted or as a last resort hamburged...
...social background. At the time of Byron's fame, England was ruled by the fat, "superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME, Aug. 19). Since George III was locked up as a madman, the prestige of royalty had never been so low. When machinery was introduced, workers rioted, smashing frames and power looms that put them out of work. Byron's first speech was a violent denunciation of early...
Though the stock was not actually issued until a year later, trading began in 1934 after the Van Sweringen Brothers proposed to escape an interest default by swapping this prior preferred for the coupons on some Alleghany bonds. To put over the plan the Van Sweringens had to resort to the courts where under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act a two-thirds majority can coerce a stubborn minority. Meantime the Alleghany "when issued" stock dropped from $30 per share...
...Green comes to Camp on Soldiers Field with very small Ray of Sunshine, but the Hull game is right in the Crimson Handrahan. Harlow blocking and tackling will Lynch the Dartmouth hopes, Bott Coach Blaik will resort to strategy in Casey finds his Armour vulnerable. Kenny Frick the works? Sage thinks...
...chief of the country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...