Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never have to use them, but he has had to take them out of the bag one after the other, and now they are get ting a bit scared about the more extreme instruments. . . . There is a suspicion that the NRA is putting up costs and not increasing purchasing power. ... In all countries except Russia the mainspring of employment is profit. Keep profits in sight and you go on. . . . Production in the United States has now fallen...
...looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor of the New York Sun. They gave a Litt. D. degree...
...announcement by the Student Council that it will investigate the possibilities of abolishing the November and April Hour examinations comes as a welcome bit of news. It not only signifies that the Council itself is awake to a problem that has been troubling the University for several years, but that the new President himself, as well as Dean Hanford, is not afraid to question at once the merits of an institution that was left untouched by his predecessor...
...Aesthetic Attitude," but it seemed wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under the head Vision, but never a glimpse of Night Vision. So the Vagabond gave up, feeling a bit wilted and dilettante, perhaps a little foolish; psychology, he decided, conceals pitfalls for the best-intentioned investigator...
...Coach Casey was determined to check up on his groundwork. Five aerials were attempted and none completed. A spectacular spinner play put in its appearance, or rather, attracted unusual attention by reason of its effectiveness, and Harvard managed to rip open the Wildcats' line for long gains on this bit of deception...