Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...
...Though nothing green grows on St. Paul, the water around it is often bright green with spawning lobsters. Few fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
...keeping with Colonel Ayres' optimism, the stockmarket last week stirred out of its doldrums and staged a strong, though brief, rally. Other indices, like public spending shown by weekly bank debits, were less cheery. On the other hand, building-most bullish factor in the industrial equation-continued onward & upward. F. W. Dodge Corp. announced that November building contracts awarded in the familiar "37 States east of the Rockies" were up 52% over November 1937, bringing the eleven-month total to $2,807,489,000, highest since...
...Though Mr. Smith's firm received a 67.77% return on its $2,500,000 net capital employed in 1937 operations, and though Mr. Smith admitted that it was virtually impossible for anyone to make glass bottles by the gob process without "coming to Hartford," he got in a retort, too. Chairman O'Mahoney observed, "that is a sort of AAA in milk bottles," and Witness Smith cracked back: "Not so far from it, but used intelligently...
...book is less a collection of poems than a clinical exhibition. Its stated purpose is to make not words, but Merrill Moore, make sense. Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words...