Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Barkley started counting the votes, saw what was happening, flushed, groped for words, Conceded the election, tried to laugh...
Chief of the Imperial General Staff Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
Nonetheless, some thought they saw signs of overproduction in the nation's No. 1 industry when General Motors Corp. announced that it had sold 83,000 more cars to its dealers in the final quarter of 1938 than they had sold to customers. This was almost the same surplus as marked the final quarter of 1937. But there is a difference: Year ago dealer inventories were at a peak of 425,000 new, 800,000 used cars; last week, according to Detroit estimates, they were relatively normal-300,000 new cars, 450,000 used...
...part work. If true, it is fortunate for the future of education here that his ancient inordinate proportion has been broken down. The "fun" is a consideration necessary only in such a degree as to give a student proper mental and physical balance. But the President saw more than "fun" in extracurricular activity. He is evidently aware of the possible value of such work not only for the student's life but for the student's education as well. Sports, too, can be an education as well as recreation...
...Saltonstalls," Mr. Shipton concludes, "have never sought great wealth. . . . Content with a comfortable fortune, they saw no virtue in leisure, but labored at the tasks they chose...