Word: impendingness
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The AAA and Department of Agriculture, if they knew of the impending "march," had made no mention of it to the Press. The descent on the marble halls of Government by 4,000 farmers from 25 states-a lobby unparalleled for size and sudden "spontaneity" - caught newshawks flatfooted.
Our contemporary, the Yale News, apparently sorely aware of approaching final examinations has taken up the cudgels for the admission of notes and outlines to final examinations. It is the result, no doubt, of the lassitude impregnant in the spring air, or, perhaps, a premonition of impending doom. But pity...
In third work Mr. Milne has abandoned fantasy and whimsy, returning to the straight comedy style of his earlier successes. As in "Mr. Pim Passes By" he is humorously preoccupied with solicitors and impending divorces, resulting in entertaining, lively comedy.
He continued: "By degrees we have built up a great measure of confidence in the finances of this country. We can see how easily that confidence may be disturbed by a few idle rumors over a week end. Talk of an imaginary crisis and impending elections can damage it by...
Veblen was neither a clubbable nor an attractive man (he never called any of his friends by their first names), but in spite of his poverty, his rawboned, stoop-shouldered, ungainly appearance, women liked him. He was twice married, twice had to resign a teaching post because of scandalous rumors...