Word: handier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They are handier and less expensive for ordinary mortals to hunt than most big-game fish; they are more plentiful, and destructive to nicer fish...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
...page of statistics Yet that is the none too tacit admission of H. A. A.'s antics last week. If it is true, then H. A. A. would be well advised to cease an annual worry, to abolish the "News," and to print, in its stead, a handier, cheaper cardboard scorecard. If it is not true, then there is small defence for an unhandsome and elaborate system of secrecy. This system has existed too long. It has been without reason save of the most obvious sort. If this weekend's news stories indicate anything, it is the butt of intelligent...
...Indianapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Washington-"communities most of which are financially able to provide whatever may be needed in the way of control measures." These Negroes, numbering about 1,500,000, "intensely Race conscious," have higher tuberculosis death rates than their rural Southern cousins. But they are handier to deal with. As prime examples of tuberculosis prevention among Negroes, the National Tuberculosis Association last week pointed with pride...
...Dour John Brown, scratching a bare living as a farmer in the Adirondacks, was a fanatical Abolitionist. He had sent some of his seven big sons out to help settle Kansas, keep her from becoming a slave state. Soon they needed help, sent word rifles would come in handier than bread. John Brown took the rifles out himself. When the Southerners burned Lawrence, John Brown took a bloody revenge. With a small party he went in the dead of night to enemy cabins, took men out of their beds and killed them in cold blood. After that...