Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert Reader Robbins, credit for neat metaphor-mixing, equal to TIMES inept: "Last week . . . they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack...
...Well knowing that the U. S. munitions business was small fry compared to the foreign business, the Senators headed by North Dakota's Nye were not ready, however, to abandon such a popular subject. Last week, therefore, they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something on U. S. munitions makers. Ranged before them for examination were Vice Chairman Irénée du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., nonchalantly blowing smoke rings at his inquisitors; President Samuel...
...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
While various organizations carry forward plans to delete and to boycott all unsavory motion pictures and others bring forth plans for improving them, an Adult Education Council of Greater Boston has been formed by Harvard instructors to work on an entirely different tack...
...community's sentiment. More than 5,000 responded to this ticklish task. The editors shied in droves from abstract spectres of change. Does your community, asked the Board, favor the principle of government competition with private business? No!-by 27-to-1. The Board tried a new tack. Does your community favor government competition with the transportation business? One editor in nine said yes. Does it want the government to go into the power business? One editor in four said yes. Would it like to see the government take over the banks? Yes, indeed, chorused more than a third...