Word: humps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...
Once over the hump, the steel industry will be in not only for new records but also for a new era: "Steel is no longer a standardized commodity like sugar, wheat or coal. We have entered into the age of specialized steels. In the future all steels are going to be tailormade . . . manufactured to order to fit the particular job for which it is designed. The outstanding achievement of the industry in this direction has been the development and perfection of a whole series of alloy steels?each alloy having its own particular properties and uses...
...sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat...
...York Herald Tribune devotes a section to pet fish. One week it is guppyis, the next, Siamese fighters, the next, Black Mollies. Last week the headline read : SALT FOUND EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR MANY ILLS OF TROPICAL FISH Beneath appeared a picture of ''A pearl danio, showing the hump-backed appearance sometimes developed by old specimens...
...Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give a sinister twist to any stated sum, particularly if it runs into nine...