Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the President said, "Good night, gentlemen." nothing more definite had been decided than that the Government should put its shoulder to the credit wheel harder than ever in the next few weeks. In the dark outside the White House, Secretary Woodin chirped: ''Everything looks very hopeful...
...filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like any callow Senior headed...
...Chesapeake Corp. stock and if Alleghany's assets rise to 150% of the par value of Alleghany's bonds, the income from the impounded assets will be freed to pay charges on other Alleghany Corp. obligations falling due in October. The Van Sweringens' financial structure of wheels within wheels begins to gain power as soon as the innermost wheel starts turning out more money...
...five minutes of seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song until everyone is thoroughly awake, and then it will considerately stop. It is rung by wheel and bell-rope, taking great skill to manipulate it, at seven, quarter of nine, nine, and thenceforth on the hour throughout the day till four. Two other bells, which compete with it are the Memorial Hall bell, and that in the Catholic Church nearby. Fortunately both of these, which ring...
...been established by foreign astronemers, according to Shapley, that this star mass turns around and around like a grindstone, completing a circle once every 300,000,000 years. The earth is a distance of 50,000 light years from the hub of this wheel of stars. The hub or center of gravity of the mass is in the southern constellation Sagittarius, where a dense swarm of stars is located...