Word: vaguer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade and other rights in China must be preserved, was "not responsive." Japan had talked vastly and vaguely about a "new situation" in China. As in the case of Germany, there was absolutely nothing the State Department could do except perhaps send another, sharper note, and get back another, vaguer reply. Simple fact of the matter was that for the first time since the clipper-ship era of which Franklin Roosevelt is so fond, the first time since Commodore Perry opened Japan to U. S. trade in 1854, and since Roosevelt I made growing Japan a U. S. protege...
...eyes of most U. S. businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce is important locally, the national Chamber of Commerce is a good thing but vaguely so, and the International Chamber of Commerce is also good but even vaguer. Germans last week had marked able President Watson as apt at least to consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito...
...again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets. More than $3,000,000 worth of quite worthless stock in one called Public Service Holding Corp...
...reproaches aimed at the Hoare-Laval plan were mainly directed at the fact that it gave too many details. The new plan will be of a much vaguer nature...
Publishers always have some reason for publishing what they do. Authors' reasons for writing what they write are vaguer. In a letter to Publisher Knopf, Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place-gallows humor." Seekers after belly-laughs need not apply! Author Neumann's humor is fun but it is gruesome...