Word: turnabout
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...week a less unruly but no less discontented mob-this time, businessmen-poured into Auckland to apply pressure in their own ways. The 1932 mob wanted things they had no money for; last week's mob wanted the right to buy things they had money for. In that turnabout was summarized the New Zealand revolution of the last three years...
...This turnabout in the President's philosophy was crystallized in the new budget in a proposed method of bookkeeping. Government expenditures have for several years been in effect divided into two types -ordinary (Government operating expenses, national defense, interest on public debt, etc.) and extraordinary (relief, highways, Civilian Conservation Corps, flood control, public buildings, etc.). The former he would have remain fairly constant from year to year; but extraordinary expenses would chart (in reverse) the country's ups and downs, and he suggested that these expenses be treated as national investments...
Transitions from the sublime to the ridiculous in double feature movie bills are rendered rare by the persistent absence of anything which might be called sublime; paucity of the ridiculous is most frequent. Such a turnabout is accomplished by this week's program at the University by virtue of the highly vaunted nature spectacle, "Sequoia." One is always suspicious of these animal films because for some puzzling reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma...
...heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. His fantastic novels embroidered such subjects as the coming to life of statues of mythological persons (The Night Life of the Gods), the adventures of bibulous ghosts (Topper Takes a Trip), the predicaments of a man and wife whose bodies were magically exchanged (Turnabout...
...biggest turnabout of the week was the President's decision to return the airmail to private hands. With Army flyers crashing, with others running into debt because the Senate had failed to pass temporary legislation authorizing their special expenses, the President asked for speedy enactment of new, permanent legislation...