Word: verbalizations
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Side show to the fight was a verbal fray last week between Board of Trade President Peter B. Carey and Chairman James Clifton Stone of the Farm Board. President Carey said that any six grain men could dispose of the Farm Board's surplus at good prices if given a chance, insisted that the Farm Board by selling wheat 5? lower at seaboard than in the interior has depressed the Liverpool price, aided importing nations at the expense of U. S. farmers...
...automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed and was purchased by Henry Ford, with an alleged agreement that the 2.400 stock-holders would be partially reimbursed. Though Henry Leland on the stockholders behalf sued Henry Ford for $6,000,000, the courts refused to recognize the verbal contract...
...weaker and aggrieved country. China naturally not only attracts considerable verbal sympathy, but also active help of a warlike nature, which in most cases is to be deplored. The recent determination of certain Canadian aviators to offer their services to the Chinese army upon being deprived of occupation by a cut in the air force of their own country is an incident which may result in the most grave consequences if the intention is carried...
...last ten years the College Entrance Examinations have steadily become more and more firmly established in their office of educational scapegoat. But, like the New York officials whom Judge Seabury has exposed, the academic St. Peters have shown no disposition to be ousted from their jobs by mere verbal denunciation. A committee of the Harvard Board of Overseers, in urging that Harvard discontinue entirely admission by the Old Plan, has now made a definite proposal with real possibilities for improvement...
...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...