Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Radio's directors had voted to clear up the $9.62½ arrears on the Class A preferred in one $4,500,000 distribution. Having taken pains to set at rest the speculation on their findings, Radio's directors laid themselves wide open to criticism for their sudden reversal. And they...
...reasons for the sudden abandonment of Hemenway Gymnasium, which has been considered by the Committee since early in December, were explained yesterday by a University official. "We feel," he said, "that since the University has little space at its disposal, we would not be justified in assigning so large a building as Hemenway Gymnasium to the commuters, for their demands are not sufficient to warrant their occupying the whole space." He also said that the running expenses of Hemenway Gymnasium would be heavier than the non-residents could pay. There is a possibility that the old gym may be given...
...doctor who treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian, is condemned to burn. The facts that the flames do not harm him, that he dies spontaneously in a sudden glow of light, make it obvious that the Jew is redeemed...
...relief from the strain of forces acting upon it-volcanic forces, shifts of pressure due to erosion, possibly tidal forces and the centrifugal pull of terrestrial rotation. There are vertical thrusts, sending up new islands to astonish mariners, building new mountains, deepening the seas; horizontal movements producing faults or sudden slips of rock masses along previously existing faults...
Racketing across country by motorbus, nine English compatriots were patriotically keeping themselves to themselves until a sudden drivers' strike marooned them in a little town. For two days they waited, enduring their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically...