Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mornings later the Dixie's company watched a low bank of black clouds creep over the southeastern horizon. By noon a stiff blow was on. By 4 o'clock the Dixie was pitching, rolling and trembling from stem to stern in the grip of a full-sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck...
...virtues, they might be father and son. But they are not a happy combination for the New Deal, for today they rally the Jeffersonian away from New Deal Democrats. Every time Henry Wallace or another New Dealer asks more power, the Democratic-New Deal coalition shakes from stem to stern. If it ever breaks in half, a big slice of the Democratic Party may go sailing off with Mr. Glass and Mr. Byrd...
...almost pitifully humorous to watch the frantic manoeuvers of the New England textile owners to stem the tide which is carrying the cotton manufacturing business elsewhere. In their mad fury they hurl insults at Wallace, pile imprecations on the Administration, indeed, almost blame Providence itself because New England has ceased to be able to complete with the rising industry of the South...
...wheel of a free-running automobile in the store. Then with the same technique he won a car for his friend Julius Janisch, sued for half the profits. Kenneth Makepeace's figuring: "I put a pencil against the wheel and counted the number of times the valve stem hit it. That was the revolutions per minute. I multiplied that figure by the number of minutes per week in an 81-hour day. The next step was to deduct two hours a week for the five-minute stops the car made every hour. Then some coasting revolutions...
...Youth Movement had been proudly nonpolitical, but as its members came of age more & more of them felt the impossibility of staying out of politics. Lilo Linke joined the Young Democrats, plunged with her customary energy into the hopeless fight to stem the rising tide of Nazidom. She became secretary to Ernst Schwarz, a Jew high in the councils of the party, finally his sweetheart. But she soon saw the Democrats were getting nowhere. "Not for a moment did I consider turning Communist, but I knew that the truth must lie somewhere in that direction." She left the party, joined...