Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mink is a long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
...Republican Party turned its back on the farmers at Kansas City," he charged, switching his allegiance to the Brown Derby, "and added insult to injury by nominating the arch-enemy of a square deal for American agriculture...
...high technique of political management are biased and uninformed; as an organization it persists only for the ends of bleeding the public till, and if its size and electoral importance were to decline, our dignity might move us to abolish it and stop the mouths of its arch prophets. But beneath all of its baroque the Legion serves a peculiar and a useful purpose. Military conscription and World's Fairs conspire with it in showing the yokels a good time, in letting them see how pleasant and inspiriting the habits of the more opulent and urban members of our race...
Sued. Upton Sinclair, writer, and William Fox, onetime cinema producer; by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman...
Berlin and Tokyo may well arch their eyebrows as they contemplate the overtures made by President Roosevelt to the Soviet government. For world diplomacy has a way of appraising every move in international relations as bearing upon world peace...