Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible extension of such detection to all human diseases set Professor Burr's imagination afire, impelled him to crow last week: "The technique should be a new and powerful weapon for the analysis of fundamental biological activity. . . . It seems well nigh unlimited in its application...
...last word in abnegation and crow-eating came from William Randolph Hearst who, in answer to his striking employes of Seattle's Newspaper Guild, wired: "I thought [when I was a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt] that Mr. Roosevelt resembled Jackson. Perhaps I was more nearly right then than later. Perhaps Roosevelt, like Jackson, has given essential democracy a new lease of life and will establish it in power for a generation...
...stuff" improved, became fiercely partisan for his old chief Franklin Roosevelt, rang with colorful invective. Last week a rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
...Woodworth will welcome into the Glee Club almost anyone from a Caruso to a bathroom tenor; and provided that one's voice is not too painfully crow-like or one's musical instincts too hopelessly at odds with the more authoritative notions of the composer, the prospects of becoming a permanent member are excellent. Once a member, real musical enjoyment is almost guaranteed. Faithful attendance at rehearsals is rewarded by inclusion in the concert list and the final big concert of the year with the Radcliffe Choral Society in Symphony Hall is well worth the preparation...