Word: appear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German army can't "Lambeth Walk." Perhaps if Germany did a little more "Lambeth Walking" it would do less "goose stepping." I should think Göring and Hitler would welcome anything to make them appear less like geese. Yours for Lambeth Walking...
...teacher charged his students $2.50 per visit? Or if some students, unable to pay the bills, were too embarrassed to attend class and face the teacher, much as they needed his services? I suspect that even doctors are not so money-mad as some of their spokesmen appear to believe, and that most of them would render honest service in spite of a dependable stable income. Some of the most important contributions to medical science have been and are being made by salaried men and women...
...trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward...
...First the hydrogens, clothed in brilliant red, appear and trip through a gay waltz expressive of their joy at the escape from the harsh gas laws that usually confine them. Then two atoms in black, carbons, emerge and grab four hydrogens each. Their kinetic freedom lost, the hydrogens now execute vibrations around the carbon atoms (methane...
...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...