Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has given us new opportunities for human contacts, but the continuity of human relations which was enjoyed by our elders, a net of relations which contributed to deep knowledge of one's neighbors, has disappeared. Here, within academic walls, we are engaged in an effort to reverse this tide...
Last week the Congressional tide for paying off the Soldier Bonus at once and in full continued to rise.* At the Capitol pro bono publico became pro bono politico. In the House 167 members were said to be down in writing as ready to support Bonus legislation, more than enough to force a roll-call vote. Fifty more members were reported as "favorable"' while only 91 were definitely ''opposed." Somewhere in the House background was said to be a colossal petition signed by two million veterans calling for Bonus cash. Though the American Legion was nationally committed...
Stocks rose in Stockholm last week as the Swedish Treasury and private banks pooled $30,000,000 to tide over a leading Swedish bank hard hit by the suicide of overwrought Ivar Kreuger, president of the Swedish Match Trust (Kreuger & Toll). Next day Swedish stocks upped again as the Diet extended for another month the Kreuger & Toll moratorium...
...Spirited is the English translation of Faust just made by Princeton's Professor George Madison Priest and published last week (Covici Friede, $5). The turning of the tide of battle between fire-puffing devils and valiant angels who attack them by scattering roses, Professor Priest translates thus...
Thurso's wife, Helen, fears him more than she loves him, hates his destructive will that is irreversible as the tide. After a deer-killing she runs off with Thurso's friend, Rick Armstrong, and hides successfully for a year. When Thurso tracks her down she goes off with him quickly, to save a meeting between, him and her lover. On the way home Thurso pretends to break down the car, waits in the desert for Armstrong's pursuit. But Armstrong does not pursue; all Thurso can kill is a lizard that rambles...