Word: languishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...personality would be subdued by his steel poll success; but yesterday he overstepped not only the bounds of prudence but also of political common sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would spend any money vacationing in Maine...
...senior made to languish...
Last week its onetime Adminstrator got down to NRA proper in the first of a series of seven articles titled "The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth." His thesis: "I think that NRA has been put to sleep, that the Codes are being allowed to languish, that the Blue Eagle, without which it cannot live, is dying, that the principles on which the whole plan proceeded are being ignored, and, worst of all, that control of its policies is passing to people who opposed them from the beginning...
...Jack Kapp has worked for phonograph companies since his high school days, when he ran errands during summer vacations. Smart Jack Kapp worked eight years for Columbia, eight years for Brunswick. He discovered many a new talent, promoted many a new selling scheme only to see the phonograph industry languish under the blight of radio...
...known, this process has been, until this summer, prohibitively expensive. By this rather sensational invention England is made more self-sufficient--the ancient British insularity is in part retrieved. No longer must the Navy depend entirely upon the Mesopotamian oil fields, and no longer will the coal mining industry languish under the threat of over-production and lack of market. British destiny may well hinge upon this one point--coals to Newcastle will become a moneymaking proposition. God save the King--though the rest of the world be falling about their ears, Britons never will be slaves...