Word: dumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most of his legislative program from Congress but everything was not rosy. His proposal to extend NRA for two years seemed about to take a licking (see p. 16). He had on paper only a bare margin to prevent passage over his veto of the Bonus Bill which would dump $2,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks on the nation. He had the problem of roundly rejustifying his whole program of lavish expenditure-in order to justify excluding the Bonus...
Bombs cannot be aimed with any accuracy and as likely as not, a bomb aimed at a railroad station or an ammunition dump will land on a church or a hospital. More likely still, it'll hit plain dirt. The fact that the 307th Sanitary Train, consisting of four field hospitals and four ambulance companies, numbering all told about 800 men, never lost a single man from a bomb, their only casualties being the result of a misdirected 16-inch shell which landed in the kitchen of one of our field hospitals, goes to show that bombs aren...
Here he was in luck. He soon discovered that of Manny Rosenbaum's 4,000,000 bu. of grain contracts, the commitments on the long side were more than offset by contracts on the short side. Liquidation would not dump quantities of grain on the market at once. By agreement with the banks, who had most of Manny Rosenbaum's spot grain as collateral, the Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President...
...Princeton season will be the Carnegie Cup Race in which they will meet Cornell, Yale, and Navy. Sikes will not permit any looking past the Compton and Childs Cup Races to this regatta at Ithaca, but unconsciously the men cannot dismiss from their minds the fanatical desire to dump the Eli jiux...
Progress is a fearsome thing for it leads from well-charted highways to unexplored paths which may end in some dark forest or municipal dump. As a result, it is easy to understand why Professor Rand feels that Latin is an essential part of a gentleman's education. It explains too, why so many of the Faculty join him in his attempt to retain the classics requirement. If motorists did not desire to visit new and fast growing settlements of learning, there would be no need to leave this main artery for the unexplored paths...