Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil. On at least three fronts "the bloodiest civil war in South American history'' neared the end of its third month, ferociously fought by more than 125.000 Brazilians behind a nearly air-tight censorship...
...rich enough to buy a Locomobile steamer. Tinkerish by nature, they soon were at the boiler and saw a way to improve it. The Locomobile company was not interested, so the Whites built a steamer of their own in 1900. They soon were in commercial production and obtaining a tight grip on all steam patents. The result was that other manufacturers turned to gasoline engines, started propaganda against steamers. In 1906 White offered to license its patents but found no takers. Quick to sense the change, the management turned to gasoline engines although it did not waver in its belief...
...will not use voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
...friendly farewells of some 5,000 raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were silenced by cheers and police fists. With the Mayor, as usual when he is in a tight place politically, was his plump little wife, Janet Allen Walker, carrying her white poodle Togo. "My place," she said, "is beside my husband. If the worst comes, we can go to my Iowa farm." Three hours later when the Mayor left his private car at Albany, the Brothers...
...turn of the year Howard Colwell Hopson. dominant figure in Associated Gas & Electric Co., found himself in a tight fix. During the next twelve months he faced $42,000,000 of bond and note maturities. Failure to refund or pay off any of them would send one or more of its multitudinous subsidiaries toppling into the hands of receivers, might pull down the parent company. A sharp accountant with a salesman's slant, Mr. Hopson proceeded to pull many a rabbit from his fecund hat. Though Wall Street has long ceased to be astonished at the complex securities...