Word: awayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, partially as a result of the halving of the borrowing period, the library had a twenty per cent increase in circulation, requiring additions to the staff; the budgetary surplus which might have otherwise been used to open Widener on Sundays was thus eaten away...
...long way down hill. Occasionally, for relaxation, they visit the concerts of Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, consider the ponderous 19th-Century classics they hear there as comparative fluff. Last month when they heard Harpsichordist Yella Pessl play a lick of swing on a harpsichord broadcast, they turned away their dial in horror. Asked why they prefer 18th Century to all other music, they reply: "It makes us feel spiritually spick & span...
...three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches, not one of these exasperating hares had been caught. On the first day of last week's meet, however, there was a kill-only 35 minutes after the hare had been "viewed away." First of the spectator field in at the kill was Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson, who was awarded the cherished mask (hare's head). Although the subsequent hunts led to no more kills, at the hunt breakfast in Millbrook's Red Pheasant Inn, the Buckram and Reddington followers agreed it had been...
...Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later he hemmed: "I was carried away. . . . Some of the statements as to what Christ would do irritated...
...last week NBC-RCA television engineers demonstrated that not all of these dreams are pipe dreams. In a United Airliner equipped with a television receiver and two-way radiophone, an invited group flew from Newark Airport to Washington-some 200 miles away from NBC-RCA's Empire State Building transmitter, W2XBS, which has a normal "eyeline" range of 50 miles. Over Washington the ship started to climb. At 21,600 feet, with the passengers sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical...