Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play the Mozart E Flat Concerto at his first Children's Concert. The Mozart concerto demands a sensitive hairline delicacy, particularly suited to young Margot's style of playing. With the praise she received, the Cuban prodigy could have gone on to make flashy headlines. Instead, she stuck to her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, lives in one room with her mother, father, two sisters. A subsidy from the Cuban Government barely gives them enough...
...master of a $165,000,000 group of British companies, mainspring of the potent International Tin Committee and a power in Empire affairs. The tin restriction plans which were incorporated in an international pact signed at The Hague in 1931 originated with an unsuccessful Howeson tin pool, which was stuck with embarrassing stocks of the metal in a declining market. Result was that the price of tin is now a matter of British Government policy and a stench in the nostrils of U. S. tin users, who have to pay what the Tin Pool charges...
...fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed in a few hasty...
Also shown are twelve "kahilis", or feather decorated poles, which were traditionally stuck in the ground as a mark of royalty...
...companies engineered a bear raid on Mo-Kan stock, caused it to break from $36 a share to $15 a share on June 16, 1930. Mr. Parish had formed Frank P. Parish & Co. to sell shares in Mo-Kan and when the Mo-Kan market collapsed Underwriter Parish was stuck with large blocks of Pipeliner Parish's shares. Since he was financing his pipeline entirely through stock sales, no more sales meant no more money...