Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Essentially the current diplomatic activity is the effort to provide a cushion and a shock-absorber for the German expansion. Always since its unification in 1870 Germany has been the most dynamic power on the Continent, pushing on every side to get outlets for the energy and ability of her people. This outward push was checked for a while by the Great War, but Hitler has picked up the old torch and put the question squarely to the statesmen of Europe, can Germany expand without another war? This problem overshadows every other one, and with China and Spain...
Champion Hoppe's facility with a cue is the sign of a youth spent in such diligent attention to billiards that he amazed experts before he was out of knickerbockers. He has held every title in billiards, although now he holds only the 18.1 balk line and the cushion carom. A quiet, smiling little man, he enjoys telling of the time at the turn of the century when Mark Twain watched him play a great billiardist named Sutton. Except for one inning in which he could not score, young Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton...
...balk line, a player is allowed one shot to nudge the object ball out of anchor, eight cushion rectangles chalked off on the table, or out of balk, the centre rectangle. In 18.2, two consecutive shots are allowed...
...higher commissions and why the demand for lower margins." Condemning the "panicky speculators'' who "know that Wall Street is bounded on the east by Long Island but forget that it is bounded on the west by the U. S.," the retiring SEChairman ended by asserting that market "cushion" is provided by odd-lot trading. To these waspish remarks President Gay made answer in words that settled nothing: "With all deference to Mr. Landis, for whom I have the highest respect, I see no reason to change my views...
...mechanical cotton picker. Most successful of such pickers is the machine devised by John D. and Mack Rust of Tennessee, social-minded brothers who are resolved to cushion the impact of the machine on Southern labor but are selling and demonstrating their pickers in Soviet Russia. After several demonstrations U. S. cotton men are still divided as to the Rust picker's practicability...