Word: barbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the concession a pointed barb at Italy it was made to cover no less and no more than the Ethiopian area which by the Treaty of 1906 was declared a "sphere of Italian influence." This area is being visualized by thinking of Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana...
Paced by smaller units like Jones & Laughlin, Republic and Northwestern Barb Wire Co., which had laid their 1935 plans long ago, U. S. Steel's directors authorized its subsidiaries to spend $47,000,000 for new construction and equipment within the year. And Bethlehem Steel announced a new $20,000,000 hot and cold rolled strip plant at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...
...come into fresh water to spawn. They do not feed in fresh water. The Indians found that they did not like red and so we tie a red feather on a quarter inch hook which is attached to light tackle. The fish strikes at the red feather, catches the barb in its lip and with a reasonable amount of skill in preventing any slack line, the fish is finally landed. Unlike tuna fishing where bait is used and the fish is permitted to swallow the bait, in salmon fishing, the salmon merely strikes at the feather and the fisherman must...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles was trying-despite continued dou-ble-crossing-to arbitrate bloody differences between Cuba's political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: "Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President was happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ), was now working in the woods, had already sent...