Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade balance (exports over imports) of more than a billion dollars last year. This asset was liquidated by the spendings abroad of U. S. tourists who, in national economic effect, had a free trip over and back. When the stockmarket crashed, its effect was felt even in Switzerland where resort bookings for U. S. tourists were heavily cancelled, U. S. children withdrawn from Swiss schools...
...entirely wrong that force should be exerted to get them to eat there. It would seem to be advisable to make the food as good as it is possible to do so and let the success of the project depend upon the excellence of the board without resort to financial persuasion...
...bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire then the reward should be greater...
...enforcement was the subject of the first big speech, by outgoing President Gurney Elwood Newlin of Los Angeles. He took the up-to-date angle: "The resort to lawlessness in enforcing law or seeking to enforce the law is more than casual, in fact, it tends to be habitual...
...days so regards the period of its ascendancy. For instance, there is the classic of the early days of the Military Academy when the Commandant of Cadets was reported to the Superintendent for throwing stones at the Corps of Cadets. I don't know whether cadets ever had to resort to the expedient of attaching the remains of their meat course to the underside of the mess tables with their forks, for use at a later and perhaps less bountiful meal, but it was certainly true, even in my own day, that cadets, especially upper classmen, reserved the right...