Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
...Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns] ... it is the duty of the local union to support the temporary placing of workers on the job to avoid a general shutdown...
...Early in the war, the Japanese chased the Chinese from the great alluvial plain around Peking into Shansi's mountains. Fighting has ranged, and still ranges, all over the province. Most coveted area is the Chin River Valley at the centre of the province-a tiny, complete world shut away by cupping mountains; a valley once bright with wheat, cotton, corn, yellow rice, persimmons, pears; surrounding hills dotted with grazing sheep and goats; and folded into the hills untold treasures of coal and iron. When the Japanese began a drive into that valley late last summer, White decided that...
Under discussion after the officers were selected was the Corporation's recent decision barring the use of the Coolidge fund for the Debating Council's expenses. That decision has obliged the Council to find new sources of income for the 1940 season, or shut up shop...
This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...