Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballot-wise, the House of Commons buzzed with approval last week as Home Secretary Sir John Simon decreed a 20-year jail sentence for Rats's murderer, with possibility of earlier release for good conduct. In gushing editorials Britons were reminded that at the worst Stoner will be only 38 when released "with a full life before...
...holdings, old and new, into the export market as speedily and profitably as possible, "at any price" it can get. Since the pool's holdings are 226,000,000 bu. and since another 250,000,000 bu. surplus will be coming in from this year's crop, the worst fears of grain exporters appeared to be justified last week...
...types of snowball schemes, to which chain letters bear some resemblance, have been held by courts to be illegal lotteries. It is hoped the recipients of letters will in their own interests refuse to take part in the schemes, which at best are a snare and delusion and at worst provide a scope for dishonest exploitation of credulous members of the public...
Peter Koinange's worst fright came during his first cold spell, in Ohio. Numb, he thought he was growing paralyzed. Of U. S. phenomena he has been most im-pressed by the Statue of Liberty, skywriting, Negro spirituals, politicians. He took readily to collegiate sweaters, rejected knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...
...feel that the entire banking profession has definitely lost ground because of the strained appeals which have been made to Congress to postpone action on the law. .. . The public is entirely justified in interpreting these appeals in the worst light possible. They are confessions that some banks have made bad or illiquetiable loans to their own officers. The public's feeling is that if such bad or illiquetiable loans have been made to an ordinary citizen, he would have 'gotten the works' long ago, been sold out or required to obtain additional endorsement or collateralization which would...