Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some length on how the restrictive immigration law of 1924 had worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the same thing. Immigrants from most countries in the Western Hemisphere escape the quota...
...Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...
...lynx will not attack a man. But, emboldened by the tastiness of chance corpses that War-winter, a female lynx stalked Grischa for days, till suddenly he noticed her crouching to spring. So drolly did her crooked eyes and fringe of whiskers remind Grischa of himself, that he burst into a roar of terrifying human laughter, and unwittingly saved himself from fangs and evil claws...
...bewailed in their prospectus the slim chances of talented U. S. artists as against widely advertised ones with European reputations. Last week, as if to prove their point for them, there appeared again in Manhattan Vladimir Horowitz, 25-year-old Russian pianist who made his U. S. debut last winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that critics who had hitherto accused...