Word: sink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is it all about? Trusting readers who plunge in hopefully to a smooth beginning soon find themselves floundering in troubled waters. Arrogant Author Joyce gives them no help, lets them sink or swim. But thanks to the exploratory works of critics, and notably such an exegetical commentary as Stuard Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that...
Berlin: Dr. Alfred ("Rosie") Rosenberg, Nazi foreign affairs expert, said that revision of the Treaty of Versailles would make possible Germany's return to the League, added: "It is now up to the League to meet the demands of our times or sink into empty nothingness...
...More pertinent to the constructive side of his damnations, is the strong fatherly method in which he extends salvation to a picked few of the forty thousand; the rare, trade-minded industrialists like Henry Ford and his peers; while he lets those who use money to make merely money, sink with the gold-standard of unsound, dishonest debts...
...boss who knows the technique of "making an election," presently announced that in more than 30 districts no candidate had won the 40% of the vote necessary for election last week. New elections must therefore be held in those provinces, with every prospect that the Socialists and Republicans will sink their differences and unite to oppose a landslide which threatened the very existence of the Spanish Republic...
...dispirited were Professor Warren and the cheap dollar advocates. Some of them even suggested that big Manhattan banks might be dumping U. S. bonds to scare the Administration away from its gold-buying policy. Some of them were willing to let the price of Government bonds sink for a time. One fact everyone at the conference had to face: that last week confidence in the dollar had been badly shaken, the public if not scared had at least shivered. Result: a reaction toward "hard money...