Word: slenderness
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...device of having the Reichstag meet every six months or so, rush through a vote of confidence, then immediately adjourn, leaving Herr Bruning to rule by decree. Last week the Reichstag met to pass on Dictator Bruning's latest "Emergency Cabinet." Fortnight ago his chances of survival seemed slender. Adolf Hitler's prestige was rising, he had been received by President von Hindenburg, and moderate Deputies longed for their lost authority, but when voting time came the threatening moderates (who complain of the Dictatorship) lost heart. Rather than turn the country over to the Hitlerites, they voted...
...once all the available candles and candlesticks in the building were rushed to the scene, and soon each of the long tables that now fill the former living room was lighted by a single slender candle, giving the scene a mediaevel appearance. An enterprising electrician, however, soon brought the banqueters back to the 20th century...
...relate the study of Latin so definitely to success in the stock market seems ill-advised when he says, "I use the same methods in selecting stocks that I do in translating Latin." It is true that luck has been with the kindly professor in the investment of his slender salaries of many years, and that now he is a millionaire; but perhaps the credit should go as much to a shrewd head as to Latin. For when dog-eared copies of "The Magazine of Wall Street" and "The Classical Journal" fraternize on the professor's library table...
Moored side by side, the Akron will dwarf the Los Angeles. She will make the Graf look slender; only 9 ft. longer, the Akron is 32.9 ft. bigger in diameter and fatter throughout than the pencil-shaped Graf. Another difference between the two old ships and the new one will be the projection of eight propellers, four from each of the Akron's flanks, instead of the five large "eggs" (gondolas), each of which houses an engine on the Los Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors...
...Donovan used to bolster his slender income by playing dummy in big real estate deals. For a modest fee, he would sign the mortgage bonds on a property and then deed the property to the real buyer. Thus, if the mortgage were foreclosed and if the amount realized by the foreclosure sale were not enough to cover the mortgage, Mr. Donovan alone would be liable for the difference. It is a shrewd method which big real estate operators can only use to limit their legal liability on obligations they assume. So long as Mr. Donovan signed only first mortgage bonds...