Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan of $75,000,000; 2) British capital to develop Rumania's oil fields; 3) increased British purchases of Rumanian oil and wheat; 4) the raising of the representative of the two nations from ministerial to ambassadorial status. He reputedly received nothing, although some sources...
...Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through an interpreter, cocked a quizzical, disapproving eye when his French was badly translated. His hosts saw him unbend only when he ate his first alligator pear and when he got tight in Los Angeles' Olvera Street...
...climbs (mentally)into the cockpit of his sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully maneuvers the ship in a tight spiral under a great heavy cumulus cloud...
...other. At one time, the Scholastics tried unit. In modern times we have swung too far in the other direction, for learning is now concentrated in small, widely-separated, ultra-specialized fields. Subjects which have natural connections, e.g., government and history, have been unnaturally separated into water-tight compartments. And because all communication has been cut off between him and his neighbors, each specialist has become less efficient and less productive. Obviously, it is necessary to start in the other direction, to bridge the space between these isolated worlds in the universe of learning...
...jack of 1,619 trade unions, a many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor...