Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown should be a bit easier than some of the others on the list. Princeton, of course, will be about the best team in the country. A victory over it would be a miracle. As for the Elis, the old saying is "Never make a prediction about a Harvard-Yale game. The unexpected always happens." The most one can say is that is 1934 Yale's performance was a considerable surprise to the football world...
...small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead him to discard those beliefs overnight. All too many students have lost their bearings in academic wildernesses because...
...lives in the U. S. and has driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...
Last April when the Treasury boosted its purchasing price for domestic silver, to keep it above the world price, speculators took the bit in their teeth and ran the world price up to 81¢ per oz. Mr. Morgenthau, who has little sympathy with speculators, promptly got out of the market. Soon thereafter the price of silver began to coast down hill?down, down, down to last week's level which caused angry silverites to assume that the Treasury had quit buying for good. Secretary Morgenthau's announcement that he had bought more than 25 million ounces of silver...
Swart, pompous little Representative Hook housed himself, wife & daughters in Washington's swank, expensive Westchester Apartments last winter. Cried he, when the Hook family's extraordinary financial relations with the Government were publicized last week: "I'm not a bit ashamed! I'd rather have them that way, drawing honest relief from the Government, than become thieves. I have sup ported them all my life and I do not intend to do it again while other people are receiving relief...