Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom investment and production is not strong enough overwhelmingly to counter-act these inevitable rigidities, then Labor Unions will conquer in their unconscious attempts to make unemployment as large as possible, and Capitalists will gain a splendid victory in contracting production as much as is monopolistically profitable and possible...
...going to select a picture that will show us the Speaker the way he looked in his prime. I remember him at that Peoria Conference some years ago and my, my, what a splendid figure of a man! I am encouraged in my lowly artistic conceptions, for a prominent artist told me only the other day that that is what art, real art, does-it shows a man in his prime. The lucky contestant will receive $2.500 and the others will have had the exnerience...
...diametrically opposite reasons the affairs of Manhattan's foremost homeopathic hospitals have long been unsettled. The splendid modern Fifth Avenue Hospital, for lack of patients, has been losing as much as $100,000 a year, with the result that Chairman Hiram Edward Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. has had to go into his own and his friends' pockets for more money than he anticipated when he became president of Fifth Avenue Hospital...
Keeping the ball in Harvard territory and making use of a splendid passing attack, the home team went into a 2-1 lead at the half as center Rutherford and left inside Major beat Tom Perry in the opposition nets...
Giant P. The Conservatives now dominating His Majesty's "National Government" have made splendid and honest use of their opportunity to take over as their specialty and to champion before the World the particular brand of pacifism with a giant P plus zealous support of the League of Nations (hitherto the forte of the British Labor Party) which recently proved their pulling power with British voters by winning 11,000,000 ballots in a nationwide straw vote (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week the Labor Party, in convention at Brighton, were so carried away by their loathing of Fascism...