Word: dearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a long pole, a tin can partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate," gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with...
...popularity over Dictator Stalin by recognizing the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), the U. S. Press last week breathed no such denunciation as at Adolf Hitler's "blood purge." In Moscow the U. S. Embassy sent expressions of sorrow at the assassination of Comrade Kirov, Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei." In Washington, however, Senator William Edgar Borah, longtime champion for recognition of the Soviet Union, boomed: "As far as I can determine, from the few facts I have been able to get, these executions were wholly unjustifiable and indefensible...
...start of a brand new day. The end of the day may be pleasant, it's trite. Still our minds are fatigued and we're glad the day is through. But morning finds millions of minds fresh and clear, As bright as the sun in the sky, my dear. Tell 'em in the morning if you want them in at night. Let 'em see that morning paper, then you just sit tight...
...offices and post roads, nothing was said about the possibility of the Government's going into the field of private business. And it certainly never occurred to the Constitution-makers that the manufacture and sale of electric power in the seven States of the Tennessee Valley would be very dear to the heart of the 32nd President...
Last week the following were news: ¶ "My Dear Grandson...