Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first legal scholarship turned toward the history of the law and the fashioning of a technique of case analysis. With the economic and social turmoil of the last three decades it was clear that scholars could not and would not limit their viewpoints to such matters alone. It was therefore a natural step that they should attempt to see the law in the light of the actual society in which it was supposed to function...
...minutes later the news was on the wires. Ten minutes later in every stock and commodities exchange throughout the land prices were soaring upward. If the Justices believed that their upholding the Government would calm the economic world, they were mistaken. In every market there was turmoil-orders to buy, buy, buy and few or none to sell. Within 15 minutes the Chicago Board of Trade, the grain markets of St. Louis and Kansas City were closed to prevent a buying panic. The New Orleans' Cotton Exchange stayed open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale...
...beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played by John Beal) has a hard boat to row for these fiercely pious Scotsmen demand a strength and purity in their spiritual leader which few mortals would dare to assay. This little village is rocked by the industrial turmoil which shook all of Great Britain's industrial villages in in the thirties and forties of the last century--the weavers are pitted against the owners and it is a battle fought with true Scottish persistence and doggedness. The day is saved for the weavers when they are warned...
...midst of the turmoil Stokowski played a Christmas Fantasy by young Ann Wyeth, daughter of Artist Newell Convers Wyeth, famed for his illustrations of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Philadelphia critics usually refrain from appraising the youthful talent which Stokowski presents. Miss Wyeth described her piece as "an expression of my personal reactions to Christmas day in our home : a weaving together of the solemn spirit of Christ's birthday with the festivities of a family holiday...
...Amid a turmoil of activity in the Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School, Ancel Keys, instructor in Biochemical Sciences, made last minute preparations yesterday for a 1935 expedition which he will lead into the mountains of Tibet to conduct a further study of the causes of fatigue...