Word: coping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, one for the deep South (TVA), one for the Missouri Basin, one for the Arkansas Valley and Texas, one for the Columbia River Valley (already in formation), one for California and the Colorado River Basin. These would undertake national planning in their respective spheres, cope with flood control, soil erosion and the other conservation problems. Although the President hardly mentioned electric power in his message, the bills introduced into each House of Congress to carry out the program provided that the regional agencies could create corporations for that purpose. They also provided that "No person...
...dinner, the purpose of which was to welcome new men and tell their parents about the House, its institutions, and its workings, was attended by so many people that emergency tables had to be set up to cope with the hordes of diners. In spite of adverse conditions, the dining-room force managed to serve steak and asparagus to all comers...
...monarch, anointing him as a persona mixta (half priest, half layman) and inheritor of the divine right of kings. All through the three-hour ceremony, the most important person there was not the King, his nobles or his ministers, but a hawk-nosed old gentleman with a cream-&-gold cope who stood on a dais as King George approached: The Rt. Hon. and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D.. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
...Lampoon ball team will take on the legitimate newsmen, who have not been defeated since 1907, when a nifty outfit from a neighboring female institution took them over. Boasting a powerhouse in Chorister Storey who will lead the CRIME into action, the Plympton Street batsmen feel they can cope with the fast balls offered by pitcher Elmer G. Ibis of the alleged humorists. Ibis has broken up many a game with a timely hit and has given the bird to the CRIMSON on several occasions...
Gingerly the report took up the idea of a cut in gold prices, all but obscuring in the verbiage so dear to bankers this simple statement: "It can hardly doubted that, at present, lowering the of price of gold would help cope with the serious problems resulting from overabundant production." Obvious though this solution for gold overproduction may seem, the chief objection, aside from those offered by interested people like General Smuts, is that tinkering with the price of gold is tinkering with currency. The European bankers, well aware that New Deal has been known to tinker with its currency...