Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EPHRAIM Brown was back in Chog's Cove. Four-five years ago, he had shipped aboard the privateer Glimpse, he had taken leave of Sue. He recalls; "Wall, I got to go aboard now, got to be going. Take care o' yourself, Eph. I will; don't forget me Sue. I won't. Wanting to kiss her and afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said...
...economic effects of the proposed program on the American currency and the foreign exchanges, its major importance lies, I am led to believe, outside that narrow field. At the time when Roosevelt felt that the situation called for another radio lecture, two large forces were pressing forward for attention--Wall Street, and the farmers. The bankers in general, with their bristles stiffened by the Securities Act and the persistent references by the Administration to "the money-changers," have been passively hostile to the N.R.A., basing their coldness on the uncertainty of the business future. Washington has mixed veiled threats with...
...small, round, piece of metal which is adjustable. In this way the foil can be raised or lowered at will, while the springs cause it to vibrate, thus imitating the wrist movement of an opponent. The whole mechanism is set upon a padded mat, and attached to the wall about shoulder height...
...British tars camped in the sandhills. The two parties met in a brawling mass, clubbing and wrestling. The campers, outnumbered, were overpowered, hauled out through the surf and tumbled into the launches. The launches streaked back to the Hood, the turbines churned a little louder and the grey steel wall melted back into...
...bonds. Meantime another and more fearsome ghost had risen to plague Daniel Willard. Last spring Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose pet aversion is professors in Government and whose fortune is chiefly in railroads, turned up in Washington with one of Wall Street's smartest statisticians and a plan to merge all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems (TIME, April 10). Because it involved firing 300,000 railroad employees, the Prince plan was pigeonholed. But Mr. Prince's statistician, John Walker Barriger III, remained in Washington to become Chief Examiner...