Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...
London bobbies are killed like flies before two clever amateurs-who work with Scotland Yard because one wants to marry the Chief Commissioner's daughter-most ingeniously trap the monomaniac and his big black diary...
...income taxes until that witness had to admit that he knew nothing about them, Senator Glass complained bitterly that Counsel Pecora was "badgering" Banker Morgan. Pecora's court manner is quiet, almost casual. Just when a witness least expects it, Lawyer Pecora will drop him into a trap. No loud bulldozer, he can be crisply sarcastic. Last week when one witness grew over-obvious about the 1929 stock crash, he cut him short with: "I've heard of that, too." He was recommended to the committee as a prosecutor who would not "play up publicity." But black...
...Soong, the Chinese Finance Minister, has cabled to Nanking* urging the Government not to conclude an armistice, because he hoped to persuade the American Government somehow to intervene if the campaign is extended to Peiping. We shall be jolly well careful not to be lured into this trap...