Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carloadings are a primary index of business conditions. Still more primary are stomach-loadings. But unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will...
...shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were wounded when the Chinese accidentally bombed the Wing...
...behind the car of M. Delbos as he drove through Belgrade, were dispersed by mounted police who charged with nailing sabres. Immediately other pro-French demonstrations broke out all over Belgrade, the crowds hurling brickbats at the police. Outside the Parliament building a gendarme was overpowered, stabbed in the stomach with his own bayonet. Wild shooting followed, punctuated with cries of "Vive la France! Long live democracy! Down with Fascism! Down with Italy!" While ambulances were taking the wounded to hospitals, Premier Stoyadinovich banqueted the envoy of democratic France, toasted blandly "the Yugoslav-French pact of ten years standing...
Those, then, who blame the University for their stomach disorders, and criticize the quality of food served in the Union and in the Houses, would do well to divert their critical energies to the state and federal governments. Upon these, who are really the guilty parties in a never-ending crime, much spleen may well be vented, in the hope that eventually, the diet of Americans may not consist of a balanced intake of arsenic and other assorted poisons...
...they call him One-Eye Pete-and is he bad-Madonna!" ¶ "Here's how your stomach feels when you ride in one of them [rollercoaster] cars...