Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does things when "something ought to be done about it" walks in after a bracing workout in a steam cabinet, gets the idea, and immediately seats himself down to write a letter to the athletic director, one of those chatty epistles which want to know fundamentally, "What the hell?" and with the writer's glass (for some strange reason it's almost always '08) displayed prominently...
...name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with difficult equations...
Last week "Mitch" Hepburn had decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken...
Loudest cheers were reserved for an old V. F. W. favorite, Major General Smedley Butler, U. S. M. C., retired. Boomed the General: "The 1,200 marines now in China are worth 12,000 any other soldiers. Let them get our citizens out and then get the hell out themselves. . . . It's your crowd that's going to do the dying and the bleeding, not the Wall Street bunch of flag wavers...
...railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...