Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just such talk Benito Mussolini won support and cash from Italian bankers and industrialists, suppressed Italian Socialism and Italian Communism, then hitched both banking and industry to the chariot wheel of his Fascist State...
...dormitories to burn red fire in the square and mutter gibberish in union the night before a so called big game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport. The undergraduates to whom I have spoken no longer regard their football teams as something akin to the defenders of the Grail, but rather as an adjunct to the university, put there for their entertainment on Saturday afternoons, and somewhat in the same category as the tennis...
Testifying before the same Committee were James Augustine Farrell. president of U. S. Steel Corp. and Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Steelman Farrell said there were unmistakable signs of recovery in his business, added that "foreign trade is going to be the great balance wheel of our country." (Steel operations for the country as a whole increased last week to 29% of capacity, against 28%, the week before.) Banker Meyer was skeptical of the Swope plan for U. S. trade associations (TIME, Sept. 28), joined Messrs. Wiggin and Farrell in cold shouldering the La Follette-sponsored National...
...walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey's End) finally agrees to wed a lusty, rich young U. S. divorcee, with the private reservation that he will leave her after three...
...have been installed in the north room on the ground floor, forming the only permanent exhibition of this sort in Boston. In one case are six pieces of modern Swedish glass, known as Orrefors "etched" glass, the decorations for which are in reality ground out by a spinning emery wheel. Besides several very thin glass vases, delicately etched, there is a jar, the walls of which vary in thickness and give it an under water effect...