Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
...relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes was enough to get from Harvard Square to the Back Bay station. With things in such a sad state, it is evident that the time has come to shut up shop. So today the shutters go up on the Vagabond's windows, the clock is stopped and the typewriter given to the janitor' for his Christmas present...
...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...
With what fury the Brooklyn Edison Co. pursued Lawrence F. Jones! First they shut off his power, but his store remained well lighted. The Edison Co. appealed to the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity, supposing that Lawrence Jones was stealing current to illuminate his store. Though his store remained lighted, no one could tell where he got the current. At last, the Brooklyn Edison Co. had Lawrence Jones arrested. He proved himself innocent of theft and went...
...prevented from going to their homes at Christmas vacation. It is unlikely that such action will be taken, according to Dr. Christian, for contagion spreads in cities whether schools are closed or not. In 1918, when a much worse form of the "flu" visited the country, Harvard was not shut down, although the epidemic started in Boston just before the college year began...