Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her Five-Year Plan was at its highest tempo, the Soviet Union bought $114,000,000 from the U. S. in 1930, tapered off last year to $12,000,000, partly because the German Government offered easier credit terms. Last week Administration officials spoke of Soviet purchases from the U. S. to total $350,000,000 within the next twelvemonth, but several Republican Senators plaintively urged caution. "I have no objection to recognition," said Pennsylvania's Reed, "if it does not call for the lending of money to the Soviet Union by any [U. S.] Government agency...
...hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn of a chastened decade; she took a troupe to France...
...complex which Dr. Crile described last week. The thyroid, he argued, is a power-house for the body; the sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire...
...Edwin Arlington Robinson, dean of U. S. poets, has dispatched another of his quiet psychological narratives. Talifer, fitting with predictable neatness into its appropriate place in the Robinson canon, adds little, detracts not at all, from the reputation its author's earlier books have won him. Repeating in tempo and style its immediate predecessors, it marks another notch in his descent into poetic...
When the liquor trade ceases to agitate at the present tempo, observers believe that most of the business will settle into the hands of the more venerable importers who maintained their European connections through the dry years. Exclusive agencies usually call for a specified volume, and if the new firms fail to develop markets, they will lose their contracts. Only three newcomers whom the old importers regard as potential competitors are Tillier-Thompson. the distributing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers and R. C. Williams & Co.. an old grocery firm about to handle liquor for the first time. Some old importers...