Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit the threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...Tight, tearing pain . . . bronchial spasm over point of sternum [breastbone...
...raise $240,000 a year to keep the penniless city schools open for the winter. Springfield voted the levy down 2-to-1. Sure enough the schools, out of operating funds and already owing $66,000 in back salaries to their 381 teachers, three days later shut down tight, not to reopen until February...
...Frederick Hobday of the Wye Agricultural College, Ashford, Kent, found that the spread of foot-rot among British sheep was checked by shoeing the sheep with tight-fitting rubber boots...
...Christian Scientists and some Jews. But most of those with whom he has associated closely during four years at Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed...