Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long has Minneapolis been closed up tight, sending every one home with the curfew. I want every one to know they can come to Minneapolis and enjoy themselves. And that's for the wags who have been calling Minneapolis a '9 o'clock town...
...past few days from $4.01) Governor Harrison reputedly broached to Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England a pegging together of dollar & pound at $4.30. This of course was sheer horse trading, the British having mentioned $3.50 as their figure. During the next few days Governor Harrison sat tight, watched mysterious forces, about which Britons thought he knew a great deal, depress the dollar so violently on the day the Conference opened that the pound was forced...
...Spanish War veterans under 62 who could not show service-connected disabilities. Principal losers of pensions were veterans partly disabled in civil life and veterans with ailments developed before Jan. 1, 1925 which a generous law "presumed" to have resulted from the War. The President screwed his system down tight on the veterans, with the idea of easing it up here & there when it was found to pinch too hard...
...this last game of the series and the Crusader's, over-whelming score in the first contest, 14-6, have made Harvard's chances for taking their next game with Dartmouth on Thursday, June 15, exceedingly small unless the lay-off works wonders or Coach Mitchell can insure tight playing in the infield...
...Wills." It was reported that 70% of estates administered in court are will-less. Churchmen and charity workers were urged, "guided by good taste and feeling," to make calls, write letters, get publicity, form committees, talk by radio on will-making, with a view to getting benefactions in water-tight form...