Word: clawful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked under by the sluiced silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors and their tough-mug crews, backed by San Francisco financiers with "ideals and traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia...
Perhaps no department in the University has suffered more to survive and to come into its own than the Graduate School of Education. Like Sociology, Government, even English--which long ago had to contend with the classics for existence, the School had to beat and claw a way into what it deserved...
...Tooth & Claw- The Beatty cat act is so thoroughly dramatized and "hoked up" to get the last tingling thrill from the most distant customer, that the skeptical are likely to be unaware of the act's real dangers. The lunges, feints and sham attacks of his beasts help make it a magnificent feat of showmanship, but they are not what Beatty worries about. Lions hate tigers and tigers hate lions, and in this atmosphere of hate the unexpected is always on the verge of happening. Beatty started mixing lions and tigers of both sexes in 1926 after a wise...
...your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude toward union labor. . . . When, however, your own reporters and editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish...
Weeks of the hardest kind of work and effort were rewarded Saturday when Harvard's football eleven rose to inspired heights to claw the Princeton Tiger into submission and earn...