Word: crumbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...distillers, saloonkeepers and topers, Professor Pearl gave this crumb of comfort : "No measurable effect of the moderate use of alcoholic beverages on longevity can be demonstrated, although heavy indulgence definitely and considerably impairs life expectation...
...Universal Oil Products Co., created a stir at a chemistry convention summer before last by exhibiting a speck, weighing one-tenth of a gram, of pure protoactinium which he had isolated. It was the first of the 92 elements to be isolated in the U. S. and this crumb constituted the world supply. Last week Dr. von Grosse created another stir by revealing that the world supply of protoactinium had unfortunately disappeared...
There is a real crumb of comfort in the reflection about the contemporary attitude, and later adjustment to the Italian and Russian dictators' policies of building up huge war machines a decade ago. Some cynics, however, particularly in France, think that a punitive war is necessary to forestall danger to their own countries. England holds the key to the whole situation; without her aid other countries will hardly resort to such a drastic and risky measure. Although Hitler has made all the demands so far, the English attitude is yet to be fully formulated and determined. Despite the war scare...
Three weeks ago the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee began to hunt for crumbs of scandal in the U. S.'s Big Three shipbuilding companies-New York, Newport News and Bethlehem. But no crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...
There was only one crumb of comfort for Conservatives-the last two sentences in the following passage: "If a man is able and willing to work, but can get no work, provision for his security must be made. I do not mean the dole. The dole is a rotten thing!" What he did mean, the Premier said, was unemployment insurance-that being the correct name in England for what is loosely called the dole...