Word: weltering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food and drug laws, thefts and embezzlements by clerks and accountants, stock frauds, political chicanery of all sorts, fee-splitting by doctors. This top-drawer malfeasance does not reach the courts nearly so often...
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...