Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though businessmen were highly vocal, the ultimate index of their attitudes-the stockmarket-showed no response one way or the other. For this the reason was clear: the new trade treaty has been in the wind for several months and Wall Street discounted it in advance by rising, knowing that, though certain individual concerns might be hurt, any broad revival of international trade could not help but benefit U. S. industry as a whole...
PRAEBURN COUNTRY CLUB--Wind-blown grass with some powder...
...reasons were both scientific and personal, and though they do not seem adequate considering the obvious risks involved, the more important fact remains that Byrd decided to go and go alone, Thanks to a diary, a detailed record of the events was preserved. Scientifically, important readings of temperature, barometer, wind directions and velocities were made, Personally, the story was told of a man face to face with the universe...
...business principles. In this act there is too much reiteration of what has gone before--too many characters state that their fathers lived and died in Dalesford, that their brothers perished in the war to end war, and too many handsful of warm loam are tossed to the Autumn wind...
...trophy-seekers heaving on the end of a hawser tied to the cross-bar reminded sportswriters of the recent attack on Princeton steel uprights. The determined Bulldogs refused to admit defeat; they produced a block and tackle which succeeded in at least leaving the impression that a frightfully strong wind had passed that...