Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...English humour is derived in part from the French. He finds, in Chaucer, support for his case, a case which does not in any way deny to English humour its peculiarly native quality. "The sap of rich realism and supple shrewdness which nourished his humour was of native racy flow. He announces the breadth of the Elizabethan drama and the subtlety of modern English humorists...
...been able to teach Republicans anything about national politics. But from the last congressional campaign the G. O. P. learned from the Democracy two tricks: 1) having the national party organization function continuously, instead of just before a campaign; 2) employing a smart, persistent publicity man. To staunch the flow of crack anti-Republican propaganda which emanated from the office of Democratic Director of Publicity Charles Michelson, the Republicans hired James West from the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. Last week steps were taken to make the Republican campaign headquarters permanent and potent, like the organization built and operated...
Banker Roberts concluded that as confidence is restored in foreign investment fields, as situations like that created in Germany by Adolf Hitler are smoothed over, the U. S.-French "sterilized" gold will begin to circulate abroad again in fecund fashion. "With a free flow of capital between nations the gold problem will take care of itself...
...hundred expert oil wranglers, white-slickered, steel-helmeted, sought to stem the flow by capping it with a hurriedly forged 3,000-lb. steel cone known as a "Christmas tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred...
...Grace Bryan Hargreaves, second daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, was happy when her oil well, "Grace Bryan No. 1," gushed in with a flow of 4,500 bbl. per day at Venice, Calif., making her one of the biggest operators in the field...