Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindling wood in the fire place in the Lowell House Common Room had been put to a match last evening when Mr. Lewis Douglas talked to the Council of Government Concentrators on recent developments in the national economy, a new meaning might have been developed for the term "fireside chat". For a meeting of minds of a high intellectual caliber on a field of common interest, where ideas are exchanged freely and no one attempts to play ringleader or bully recalcitrant thinkers into jumping through the hoops of his own individual dogma, is a refreshing change from the drama...
...disclose he admitted that his greatest desire was to "go to Hollywood . . . . who wouldn't?", he exclaimed. But although a life of leisure doesn't appear to be completely distasteful to Fuller, he is afraid that once in the movie city, he will be shoved aside with a long term contract and nothing to do but admire the scenery. Again it is difficult to visualize Fuller objecting to Hollywood scenery...
Curiously, the panicky selling did not spread to the over-the-counter market. But neither that nor Treasury support, which appeared when trading grew demoralized, prevented prices from diving to new lows for the year. At week's end long-term Government issues showed losses of as much as 1¼ points, which is serious in the Government market, a ½ point drop being rated a break...
...bonds, whose rate of retirement is fixed, work in an inflexible inverse ratio. The current downward trend in bonds set in just about the time the Federal Reserve Board was getting set to cut excess bank reserves for the second time, a move which was sure to boost short-term if not long-term interest rates...
Almost equal in physical appointments, thoroughly cross-sectioned in every meaning of the term, and closely alike with regard to room prices, the seven units of the House Plan apparently offer little to the outsider who would distinguish one from another in desirability...