Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her plump, black-eyed brood, Jewess after rich Jewess scuttled out of Germany last week, filling trains de luxe with wails and confusion. Mother-instinct knew the meaning of Jew-Baiter Adolf Hitler's election victory fortnight ago, when his Fascist "Brown Shirts" leaped fearsomely from ninth to second place among German parties (TIME, Sept...
This is certainly a fine plan, and adds just the proper zest and sporting instinct to a game which in other places has started to become a bit tiresome. Unfortunately the speakeasy, like the fox at the hunt, doesn't stand a chance, but the plan is a laudable effort to keep alive one of our finest national sports. And in twenty miles there is plenty of time to sober...
...announcing. "My wife is hysterical. I'm going crazy. I'm sick of this science business. I had it out with Kegel before the conference, and told him nobody is going to take away my baby. My wife knows it's our baby and I guess a mother's instinct is as good as the experts, who contradict themselves. . , . That Kegel, making us pose for the movies and talkies and news reels! I'm sick...
...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
...public has a right instinct to judge lightly the bookseller who occasionally sells a book which oversteps the legal line of obscenity. It condemns the professional who publishes a book simply because it stands on the border line of decency, and exploits every possible titillation of his product. But the companies which subterraneously produce smut and near-smut, as a regular business, stand on a very different footing from the reputable bookseller who incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year...