Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State and contributions from the Chemical Foundation. After Governor Talmadge vetoed further appropriations, the Chemical Foundation took up the slack. By 1933, as director of the Pulp & Paper Laboratory of the Industrial Committee of Savannah, Inc., Chemist Herty succeeded in making enough pine-pulp paper for one run of a little Georgia weekly called the Soperton News. Later that year a group of nine Georgia dailies simultaneously...
...gets the impression he has a very slack maid, and he removes his glove and writes on the walls and windows in the dust "D-I-R-T." Well, he doesn't understand, so he, the over-neat boy, goes to the janitor and complains on his maid with the result she is either transferred or fired. Now I tell you this so that you may understand...
...suffering from too much controlled economy....I ask union for action and action in union!...Stability of the franc must be maintained and interest rates lowered....Restricted economic regimes have failed everywhere. France must have organized, controlled and defended Liberty to remedy the evils of unemployment, poor sales and slack business...
Harvard was now kicking with the wind, and our friends were expecting a sure victory. The ball, however, remained in the middle of the field, Princeton playing a stronger game, and our team seemingly becoming slack in their work. At last, Cutts and Dodge of the Princeton team got the ball, and by some capital running and passing, Cutts carried it directly behind our goal. It was brought out, and Cutts, by a fine place kick, lifted it over the cross-bar, thus securing the first and only goal for Princeton...
...groggy. By week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine's divers worked only during slack tide, 20 min. twice...