Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans & Turbines. An even more curious delegation (composed of U.S. military men, engineers and New Dealers) was also in Buenos Aires last week. Led by earnest, social-conscious Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired, and onetime deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, the first 13 experts of the newly formed Inter-American Construction Corp. were already consulting with Peron's five-year planners. Their purpose: 1) to sell Argentina U.S. technical know-how for the plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines...
Arnall beamed at the opportunity thus presented for speech. Cried he: "Last night under cover of darkness there was performed a perfectly executed pincer movement in which the locks were removed from these doors. This move was backed by the military forces of the pretender, Talmadge." Then, while the curious alternately booed and cheered and occasionally shot off firecrackers, he took over an information desk in the capitol rotunda...
...tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery...
...course generally known that this [Manchurian] arrangement was conceived and agreed to by the participating nations at the Yalta Conference to which China was not invited. ... It was evidently a price paid for Soviet cooperation in the achievement of victory over Japan. But it remained a curious and practically unique instance...
Newton used an apple, Galileo a pendulum, and now the River Charles, has been unutilized in the interests of science. A curious and resourceful member of Adams House decided Saturday, while scrolling across the frozen stream, that further investigations were needed on the elasticity...