Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing this nation a great service and perhaps be instrumental in keeping these United States out of the next conflagration which seems inevitable, if you could arouse your 450,0 readers to sufficient interest that they, would demand reprints of these two clear, concise, unbiased articles. CHRIS. A. HORN...
...Nantucket Lightship guided by its radio beacon, planning to alter course as soon as she passed the light. The usual procedure in such cases is to determine the proximity of the light by the increasing strength of the radio and submarine signals, and by the sound of the fog horn. However, in some instances,due to atmospheric conditions, "dead spots" occur in which it is impossible to hear fog whistles even though they be near at hand, and similarly, the strength of radio signals is erratic. In yesterday's disaster such conditions obtained...
Germans have always felt that when an automobile horn sings out "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it ought to mean something. Before the War only Kaiser Wilhelm's family cars were permitted to carry the polyphonic sirens that were known in the U. S. as Gabriel Horns.† When the Kaiser went, any little clerk with an automobile could speak with the four woodland notes of a Gabriel Horn. Last week the Nazis grabbed the Gabriel Horn for themselves. It was decreed that hereafter when an automobile toots "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it will mean that there goes...
...particularly of England, which would see nullified the effects of her abandonment of the gold standard which revitalized here industries. Whatever the next few months may reveal in the way of world trade revival, it can safely be predicted that it will not be Germany which will below here horn loudest abroad so long as the hope remains of shaving another dollar from her obligations. WOTAN...
...even wise Dr. Jackson could resist a long toot on the horn of international brotherhood. Last week he joined Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, able Manhattan dermatologist and Director-General of the Association, in calling the cruise "a dramatic and remarkably successful step in the establishment of permanent goodwill between the Americas...