Word: vex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, the Soviet Government, perhaps intending to vex Great Britain, agreed to restrict manganese mining at Nikopol, to take only $1.50 a ton for Harriman-mined manganese, and to waive its demand for renovating the Tiflis-Poti railroad. Those modifications made Promoter Harriman virtual overlord of Soviet manganese production...
...McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks ago (TIME, April...
...moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over...
Another lecture this morning of timely importance will be given by Dr. Hornbeck in Harvard 5 at 9 o'clock. His subject, "China: The Second Period of Conflict and Second Set of Treaties, 1844-1860", will be a study of the origin of the questions that now vex the Orient, and will constitute an invaluable commentary on the present situation. Other lectures of interest...
...nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...