Word: drabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unfortunate that the American publishers gave the volume a drab, ugly binding and failed to correct a variety of typographical errors...
...gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored U. P. shield on its snout. Though in an enterprising industrial company such a change would cause...
Leonard Porter Ayres describes himself as a "drab old man." Spare, greying, humorous, he is executive vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. and the author of that bank's famed Business Bulletin, a little four-page monthly that is read by at least 40,000 people and quoted by the Press for millions more. .In simple charts and simpler English he "tells things which the bank's directors and customers want to know...
...happy to say that despite our materialistic way of things our Alice is just as real today as are the dreams of children. It is therefore fitting that we remember Mr. Carroll today who has brought such a bit of beauty to our lives so often all too drab...
Immediately upon the death of H. R. H. Victoria every flag in the British Empire went to half staff; the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Gloucester canceled a shooting trip; peers put away their golden coronets, peeresses their tiaras and Parliament was opened in drab mourning. For the first time British historians could remember since the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened...