Word: straighten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these movements the inactive muscles are not merely passively relaxed, but are actually inhibited so that they are slacker than when the finger is at rest. By such systematic...
...Japan, political unrest in the European 'powder-box,' and high tariff walls, all add to the uncertainty of our economic life. It is evident that fear has exaggerated the importance of these conditions, but they must be reckoned with, one at a time, before we shall be able to straighten the entanglements of international economics...
...month Embezzler Phelan helped auditors to straighten out his books. Last week he was arraigned on a charge of stealing $1,900, his last peculation. Said he: "I haven't enough money to hire a lawyer, but if I can get out on bail I may be able to find some." A truckman furnished $20,000 bail...
...gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least 300 people knew he would attend her performance. A search began for Gangsters Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, onetime "Lindbergh...
...what newspapers called "the beginning of a new era in Prohibition." During the daytime the ills of office and the Ways & Means Committee had a sobering effect. But at nights he forgot his troubles with the British Ambassador, assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged...