Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishman I am obviously pleased to see on the front of your recent issue [May 15] that very excellent and natural picture of King George VI, but when I turn to the editorial under the heading Great Britain .and find on p. 25 such words ". . . for which the British public, almost forgetting that Edward VIII ever happened ..." I am singularly disgusted...
Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...
...cold feet about Pat Reed's story, showed it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was "requested" not to broadcast it. Mad as hops was Pat Reed, who had expected to turn an honest penny with his radio yarn. Said he: "NBC is controlled by the Government anyway...
Through April, May and early June last year - while 1938's recession was bottoming-the stockmarket was indigo blue. At 10 a. m. on June 20, something happened. The market turned in its tracks and began to climb. Blue turned to rose color. For two weeks stocks climbed spectacularly. So far as the market was concerned the corner had been turned. Last week something resembling the June turn of a year ago, but on a much smaller scale, took place in the market. Brokers talked jubilantly of another corner being turned...
...result of this lack of enthusiasm," Sargent stated, "interests turn away from studies, social obligations claiming almost all the preparatory graduate's time. To make up for the lack of application to his studies he is forced to go to tutoring school...