Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, General Johnson has made some mistakes. He had to. The NRA was thrown together in a hurry to save the world; it has done something, and it has created a lot of disturbance. But you see, the big interests who began by making the codes, and so they continue to make the trouble. If seems anomalous, but it's true...
...make or break a crew. They have to know how to get the most out of the men. A good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist. He must know when to coast and when to spurt...
...make friends. And he was setting out on the polite career of being a county squire in politics. Vincent Astor, working in his real estate office on 26th Street just west of Broadway, had no such gift for making friends; he was in fact a thoroughly serious-minded and, save for his money, socially unequipped young...
...motion and dance. For a while she studied in Paris under Maria Egarova, onetime ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. But she was in her middle 20s, too old to become a good ballet dancer. She left school, recording her adventures in a thinly disguised autobiography, Save Me the Waltz. She also began to paint seriously...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is "one of the three or four men of real stature in the Cabinet." and fast-ripening Presidential timber. Observer thinks Rexford Guy Tugwell "a genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there...