Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose International Harvester books he audited. Twenty years ago Harold McCormick and his wife (the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick) were bearing the financial brunt of Chicago's opera performances. The deficits were enormous, the affairs badly tangled. Mr. McCormick thought that practical, hard-working Herbert Johnson might help straighten things out. Professionally unacquainted with music and musicians, a Lockport, Ill. native with only routine office experience, Herbert Johnson soon got a taste for prima-donna intrigues and backstage excitement. He had worked up to become vice president and business manager of Insull's Civic Opera Company when disaster...
There are very, very few large courses in Harvard University in which there is truly inspired lecturing. Once or twice during the year, there will come a moment, as Professor Lake reads from the Bible, when the scratching of pens and pencils will cease, students will straighten to complete attention, every whisper will fade to nothingness, and, for a few long seconds, the class will hold its breath, while Professor Lake passes the climax of his passage. Such tension can only last for a moment, but the effect of it lasts years. To have been present on one of those...
...superintendents of the non-union Frick and Pittsburgh companies refused to recognize, on the ground that their non-union employes were unrepresented. Thus a new deadlock was created and NRA's special coal arbitration board headed by General Electric's Gerard Swope had its first "grievance" to straighten out. After hearing both sides the board ordered that: 1) election notices were to be posted two days in advance at each mine; 2) the election was to be held at the mine entrance; 3) any miner willing to help pay the check weighmen could vote; 4) the mine superintendent...
Inquisitive British officials followed the troops. To their surprise they found Al-war's finances a Chinese puzzle of mounting debts. Instead of being gangsters, the Meos had revolted against overpowering taxes. Britain offered to lend the ?375,000 needed to straighten out the state's finances on one condition: that the Maharaja take a little trip for two years, cut his privy purse to two lakhs of rupees...
...July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four ''strikes'' or blows. One of the important tasks of the officials was to straighten out the rapiers, at times bent almost double by the terrific blows. The motif of the whole performance is absolute seriousness...