Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest crab apple in the barrel of discord has long been Electric Bond & Share Co., which led the fight against the Public Utility Holding Company Act ("death sentence") requiring that utility empires be reorganized into geographically integrated systems with no more than one intermediary holding company between the operating companies and the top. But last spring the Supreme Court ended a long SEC-E.B. & S. court fight by deciding that the clause of the act requiring all the holding companies to register with SEC was constitutional...
...will divide the rest) but who remembered that gold bars had been brought up from the Lutine before. Let a strong wind come up before the Karimata finishes work, and in the shallow waters of the North Sea even the world's largest dredger will scramble like a crab for cover...
Ralph C. Whitnack '38, rowing bow for the Bunnies, caught a terrific crab up toward Watertown and went clean over backwards into the dirty waters. Two passing crews rested on their oars to enjoy the sight...
...Elephant boat lived up to its name as far as power went, as it held a safe lead over the entire stretch. Winthrop, staging a mighty spurt near the end, drew up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab up on the Bunny shell but caught a crab 25 yards from the finish line enabling the Leverett eight to cinch second place and a spot in the final. Dudley, despite a consignment of ringers, finished nearly 25 lengths in the rear...
Neat little trucks from Holland's, locally famed Negro caterer, pulled up at the cellar door of the American Philosophical Society's Georgian brick building on Philadelphia's Independence Square last week, disgorging trays of fried oysters, crab cutlets, apple salad and fancy cakes. To sleepy loungers in the Square this was a sure sign that the Philosophical Society, oldest and one of the richest of U. S. scientific bodies, was holding its spring meeting...