Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power in the Federal Reserve Bank should, however, be more centralized so that it can take prompt action to tighten up credit as soon as inflation sets in, to free credit when deflation starts. At present with twelve scattered Reserve Banks and a central board "composed of men of diverse opinions," prompt and effective action is difficult...
...attitude which has been described by the New York Times as "getting sore," for Russia has grown sharp with Japan; as the Soviet on the Western Front is no longer willing to be bluffed by England, so the Soviet on the Eastern Front feels strong enough to tighten her demands in Tokyo...
...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the Senate paid handsome tribute to "Pluck," now a small hawk-nosed Senator of 75. By a vote of 54-to-9 it passed his bill to reform the national banking system and tighten up loose screws in the Federal Reserve machine...
...Migraine Feels. The brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight...