Word: boomeranger
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...called the "first" step) the selection would still rest with the instructor; obviously only a part of those applying would have been measured by the English A-1 yardstick. (2) In the three "higher" courses, 12, 31, and 5, the applicant is likely to find a gradation rule a boomerang. As it is now, the instructors in these courses do not necessarily require a year in A-2 or 22. If they feel that a man is ready for a higher course, he is admitted. The flexibility of the present system is one of its virtues. On the other hand...
...High tariffs have cut U. S. Repeal imports far below expectations, and the German market has completely disappeared. Yet the Bordelais are not ready to revolt. Should there be elections tomorrow their chief interest would be reduction in the French tariffs and quotas that have proved to be a boomerang to French trade...
...thing alone is certain; the right of labor to organize as provided by the famous section 57a of N.I.R.A. seems to have proven the boomerang which the framers of the Act feared that it might become. By the irony of fate the very measures which were designed to forward recovery now seem designed to be instrumental in retarding it. While the recognition of the right of Labor to organize in the face of employers' organization must be conceded, it is apparent that this right may yet mean the destruction of whatever good N.I.R.A. has so far been instrumental in accomplishing...
Senator Schall: This shows that the people of the United States do not intend to be fooled much longer. . . . This case should be almost as big a boomerang as the unconstitutional cancellation of air mail contracts...
...constituents on a particular issue to vote otherwise, is not altogether new in American politics. It has been espoused before but with little success by either party. President Taft in 1910 tried to punish the Western Insurgents by threatening to withhold "patronage," but the attempt was a boomerang. The Republican regulars tried it again shortly after 1912, but in 1916 welcomed their opponents into the fold...