Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly, those abstaining were Greece and Yugoslavia, who felt they were a bit too near the Soviet Union for comfort; Finland, which decided not to be both plaintiff and judge, and China, which depends on Soviet Russian supplies for its war against Japan...
...Manhattan hotel, where he lay ill with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...
...flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities champ at the bit waiting for marching orders from Washington, that the course has been stumbling along very jerkily indeed. It would be too bad if the excessive centralization of the C. A. A. snarled up the course and made it too disorganized to be worthwhile...
...about a new deal for the college generation? A lot of those toys are too damn good to be wasted on infants who don't know how to enjoy them properly. Frankly, Vag could use an electric train this Christmas. His roommates wouldn't laugh. They're a bit sheepish on the subject--but Vag bets they'd play too. So, could you spare one train--just a little one? Into the ashcan with false sophistication! Vag is going to hang a hopeful stocking...
Lowry showed tremendous possibilities for a man who has wrestled for as short a time as he has. With just the slightest bit more knowledge about the game he might have nipped Sherry, who found it hard to compete with the scrappy Crimson football guard, but finally beat him by a decision. The most pleasant outcomes of the afternoon were the two speedy falls won by Sophomores Jim Redmon and Dick Thomas...