Word: timidly
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Sated by a tiresome evening of business to which they had paid little attention, the delegates applauded Professor Hudson, chatted volubly, slowly left the hall to the mercies of volunteer Radcliffe damsels who removed the fifty-four timid, gay little flags which had marked the national contingents. Delegates had given respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken...
...choice did Water Works and Central sweeten their new bond issues with conversion privileges. Convertible bonds are always popular with timid investors in any period of rising prices because they offer a bond's stability of principal and income together with the speculative possibilities of stock. Last week on a when-issued basis Water Works' new bonds were promptly bid up to 5% above par, Central's 17½% above. Both issues are the first major financing in their respective fields since the Securities Act. Water Works' bonds carry the full civil liabilities imposed...
...world cruise. Of the same category as Grand Hotel, Sea Level uses a large cast, plays few favorites, finds what plot it can in the personal history of some of its characters, their cat-&-mouse or cat-&-cat relationships. Alec Reade, like Kringelein in Grand Hotel, is a timid soul whose sentence of death has given him his first and last holiday. His cabin mate, "Pal" Turner, is a loud fellow of the baser sort who honestly wants to be friends with everybody. Banker Crowell quickly establishes himself as chairman of all entertainments. "Baby" Weedon...
...means all the activities of the Federal Council of Churches have been so clear-cut. Both within and without the churches, critics have declared that the Council is opportunistic, sometimes timid, sometimes too bold. A backhanded approval of Birth Control (TIME, March 30, 1931) caused the Presbyterian Church, South, to bolt the Federal Council. The Federal Council deplored war before the War, has consistently denounced Big Navies ever since...
...issue bonds, the proceeds of which will be directly or indirectly spent by the government and put into active circulation through public works, relief, or the R. F. C. And the process of issuing bonds is more than a gathering together of idle deposits in the hands of timid investors. It is the creation of new bank deposits backed by the bonds themselves; bank-deposits which are exactly as effective for government expenditure as an issue of flat money...