Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang on his wall. Gist: ''Naval policy is the system of principles, and the general terms of their application, governing the development, organization, maintenance, training and operation of a navy. It is based on and is designed to support national policies and national interests." The admirals do not make those national policies...
Recently that fight has loomed most noticeably in France. The Comite des Forges has decidedly not been a popular name in France. To be exact, it never WAS a popular name. Just as a politician in the United States was always against Wall Street during his campaign, so in France many a political victory has been won by accusing the opposition of being in the pay of the Comite des Forges. Of late, as political tension in France has grown hotter, so resentment against the De Wendels and the Schneiders has grown more bitter...
Caught at the time Gettle was rescued, the three confessed and pleaded guilty to escape a death sentence, possible under California law because Gettle was bruised in a fall off a wall during the kidnapping. The brief history of their undoing consumed less than 24 hours (see p. 50). Said Lifer Williams as he entered San Quentin...
...stockmarket pulled up short last week, rose moderately. Volume of transactions, however, continued to slide down to new low records. In a short Saturday session only 249,300 shares changed hands-lowest figure since July 1932. Even the Toronto market was more active. Having nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat crop...
...Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages, once nearly dying of thirst when he dropped his waterskin, Hsuan made himself so popular everywhere he went that he had to go on a hunger strike...