Word: sways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detroit Bridge Default. Little more than a year old, valued at $13,892,000 is the Detroit International Bridge between Detroit and Sandwich, Ont. Last week not the bridge but the company of the same name which owns it began to sway dangerously. Business depression has caused traffic to fall off. Competing ferries have cut their rates viciously rather than go out of business. Traffic has been diverted into the new Detroit-Canada Tunnel. During 1930 toll revenue was $892,000, operating expenses?$328,000. But by the time all charges were computed the bridge company...
...pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told of the dinner which custom decreed He promptly assented and ordered a feed. . . . So it came to pass that when Dawes went away A friend of the pages, Charles Curtis, held sway...
...vacationing at a little Italian resort, take their children to what is advertised as a sleight-of-hand performance. Before the show is five minutes old, the parents realize they are seeing an exhibtion of hypnotism. Before the evening over the whole audience is under the hypnotist's sway. Before the final curtain murder has been done. But luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story-Mario and the Magician has more in it than many a lengthy novel, told with the insight and artistry that has made...
...Sway. When the College of Cardinals locked themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...
...still widely divided but greatly encouraged Democracy Mr. Shouse loomed last week as the most powerful non-candidate-for-office, the man who?with a continued decline of Republican sway in prospect?had the greatest chance of any Democrat of shaping U. S. history in the next two years...