Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers guessed that the naval drive up the river would remain feeble simply because the Army was loath to support it. Japanese Army commanders have no desire to shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
...chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime workers under Joseph P. Ryan in a new organization romantically called the Seafarers' Federation. Result: a new line-up of Labor on the West Coast, the solid front of the Pacific Maritime Federation shattered, new allies for the A. F. of L., a new chance for shipowners to drive a wedge between the warring factions of Labor...
...which continues until stocks are so depleted that extensive buying must be renewed, forcing prices to turn upward. Last week, Standard Statistics saw no sign of U. S. business reaching this fundamental crossroad in the immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index to 136 last week. But a 25? drop brought the listed price of steel scrap to $10.75 a ton, positive proof that the key industry of steel had no immediate upsurge ahead...
...Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident in capitalism...
...purpose of making it more interesting. It has become more so to the linguistic student who picks up the grammer easily from the reading and presumably concentrators would be in this group. But at the same time it has become more difficult for those who need a good solid grammatical foundation before they can read with profit...