Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest cities of the land banks still splash the front pages with considerable regularity.* In Philadelphia the news is the prosecution or conviction of officers in several small defunct institutions. In Detroit it is the desperate effort to find out why its biggest banks were (and still are) shut tight.† In Cleveland it is the muckraking of Ohio's State Senate bank investigating committee. While liquidators began mailing the first payoff checks to some 400,000 depositors in Cleveland's defunct Union Trust and Guardian Trust last week, the Investigating Committee raked this muck left from March...
...which most of Italy and most of Chicago had long planned, occurred at 5:45 o'clock on a bright Saturday afternoon. It seemed as if everyone in Chicago had turned out. The lake front and the Century of Progress grounds were jammed with crowds centring in a tight mass at Navy Pier and trailing for miles along the shore. In front of the pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy...
...Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp. Lohse had enlarged them six times and in their tight, strong compositions the subjects still looked natural...
...recess of the Conference might do some good. By this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which...
...result was never in much doubt. Wood, outdriving his opponent by as much as 60 yds., was seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done in the morning. At the 33rd, he was still...