Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that his resignation might not have to stand. Said he, "I shall accept any frankly revolutionary government capable of continuing and improving my work." Few hours later the ballroom squabblers picked as Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said...
...call for a showing of developed standards, and for some ability to relate the pale facts of study to the realities of life. In short, the ideal Graduate School would merely provide a fertile ground for the development of a man's work, and would not box it or trim it, or force it into any prearranged pattern...
...direction of Coaches Bill Murray and Cliff Gallagher, for the benefit of the Varsity. The affair was an informal dummy scrimmage and the Varsity coaches supervised the work of the defense. Continuing a scheme instituted last week, Coach Casey sent in four coaches against the Varsity's offense to trim up the assignment work. This method proved satisfactory last week and will probably be used again to put the polish on the first-stringers
...such men as Sewell Avery, John V. Farwell, Albert D. Lasker, Alexander Legge, Col. A. A. Sprague, E. L. Ryerson Jr., Thomas E. Donnelley, were issuing a manifesto against Inflation. The Crusaders, who have found their Holy Grail. Repeal, announced a new crusade: against Inflation. Even inflationists began to trim their sails when they saw the Government's credit threatened. Senator Elmer Thomas was declaring: "There need be no fear of printing press inflation. . . . With gold adequately repriced the problem of future stabilization is simplified. . . . Our currency system must support business on a scale that will insure profits...
...Parliament reassembled last week the biggest armament man in the world, trim, grey-mustached Eugène Schneider, stood figuratively at bay. All through Depression the giant Schneider-Creusot works have been racing to fill orders, their furnaces blazing and their lathes screaming as they turned out guns and projectiles for Japan, and for such other good customers as China. With the French budget now cracking under a deficit of seven and one-half billion francs, the Chamber's ruling Left-Center politicians have resolved in recent weeks to crack down on French munitions makers for a larger share...