Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THERE was a time not long since when no German could have been presented to the American public in an heroic or even romantic aspect. It would not have been allowed by the British press bureaus, and since these amiable organizations controlled and dictated all foreign news matter published in...
Such delay is remarkable aside from the fact that it costs the Ford plant almost a million dollars a day. The Ford corporation that feeds and mans the big guns is a small, easily handled squad of three-its sole stockholders are Henry Ford, Mrs. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford...
She discussed a rumored maneuver by the Wilson family to make "a good thing" financially out of Lena's marriage: "I saw that soon enough and when I did I stopped it. There will be none of that. I know my people of the river too well."
The Situation. In California, Texas, Oklahoma, there are vast underground reservoirs of crude oil into which men have drilled wells. They have been like boys, armed with straws, sucking lemonade up from great bowls. The harder a boy can suck and the more straws he can maneuver, the more lemonade...
Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai...