Word: skid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accident naturally recalled the several motor smashes that involved correspondents accompanying Presidents Wilson and Harding. On the former's League of Nations swing to the Pacific Coast, three press employes were injured, one killed. During the Harding trip to Alaska, two more were injured, one killed, victims of a skid...
...graft" course which is skid-proof...
...Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down, always he was lonely, always there were the women. Mr. Black must have known a lot of Stacys; he makes this one significant because he is almost perfectly average. If too many klaxons blow in this book, if people seem to skid into each other's lives, trip each other up, like passengers at a slippery crossing, it is because the life Mr. Black has chosen to observe is like that; people are hatched too fast, buildings rise too quickly, traffic is hard to handle, walls are not very thick...
...cannot put him on the skid...
...credit inflation and a runaway stock market. Now, however, the task would be harder. We have more gold, less active business in many lines, and a Presidential election ahead. No good Republican would particularly enjoy seeing the brakes applied to the money market as hard as to cause a skid downhill similar to that experienced last year. As long as the Federal Reserve Board consists of political appointees, it is somewhat beside the point to declare that politics has nothing to do with business tendencies. This might be so were conditions normal. But they are not normal. We are sitting...