Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rulers of the Sea (Paramount). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Lockwood in a yarn about a Scottish mechanic who invents a marine engine to replace sails on transatlantic ships, and his struggle to get it accepted. Through a welter of Scottish brrrrrrs, auld corbies, hoot mons, arson, engine trouble and coal shortage on the high seas, audiences are sustained by the foreknowledge that marine engines are now in general...
...this same spirit, Washington last week was a welter of Pan-American projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
University officials have at last deigned to answer the barrage of criticism aimed at them for their action in the case of the ten assistant professors, and they have given a complete explanation of their stand. Out of the complicated welter of figures and claims, only one fact remains as clear as it was before: that teaching and tutorial instruction in several departments have been seriously harmed. They have been harmed because the number of "middle-men"--who are the backbone of tutorial and teaching has been reduced by the firing of the assistant professors...
Clearly discernible amid the traditional welter of words of advice and humorous anecdotes were two factors not present in recent years: the President's tendency to limit his remarks to introducing the other speakers, and the preoccupation of almost all the speakers with the war in Europe...
...welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering...