Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood...
...Digest is wary of sending out twenty-two million ballots for it feels that the logical results might play an influence in the elections which would be detrimental to the success of the Roosevelt program. There is something to be said for this stand for these accurate polls undoubtedly sway a sizeable fringe of voters who are anxious to get on the band-wagon. If these surveys were carried to extremes, the country might find that the Literary Digest was holding presidential elections...
...Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse...
...create a new Textile Labor Relations Board, superseding both his own Winant Board and the National Labor Relations Board, President Roosevelt last week simply extended the sway of his Steel Labor Relations Board, created last summer when a steel strike threatened (TIME, July 9). Its members: 1) aloof, judicial Walter P. Stacy, who expected after a fortnight as temporary chairman to return to his job as Chief Justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court; 2) grim, grizzled Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. N., retired, ardent Big Navy man, arbitrator of two railway labor disputes; 3) liberal James...
...Yale team practicing on Sunday. What a horrible thought? Right in New England, where Puritanism and conservatism still hold sway and John Harvard with his somber garb still is the traditional caricature of the population--right here in New England I say, the Yale football team was practicing on Sunday...