Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France contended last week that contracts already existing between firms like Schmitz A. G. and Pierre et Cie must not be disturbed by the Hoover Holiday, a primary purpose of which is to promote world trade. But on this point President Hoover set his square jaw. His reason: "such deliveries" are in effect "payments." Mr. Hoover let it be known that "the spirit of the [Hoover] proposal" demands that no reparations payments be made by Germany during the moratorium year except such as are reloaned to Germany through...
...before he had not noticed it, but he complained that Mr. Vanderbilt had telephoned that he was going to get a gunman to kill him. Advised the Police Chief: "You look big enough to take care of yourself. If anyone's bothering you, go punch him in the jaw...
...Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; by knocking out one Pat Redmond, unknown and incapable Irishman, in the first round. Both giants moved ponderously about the ring. Camera pushing his great fist, Redmond pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French Open Golf championship at Deauville, with...
This impostor is described as a Latin-American, eighteen years of age, about five feet four inches tall, good looking, with one tooth missing on the right side of his jaw. He gives his address as Hamilton Hall, Cambridge...
...Museum of Natural History, also a paleontologist, was to talk next for 15 minutes on his hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the shovel tusked mastodon developed its lower jaw to scoop food from swamps. The African elephant developed its upper tusks to uproot trees for their tender top leaves. This Osborn theory opposes the Darwinian theory that new types develop from accidental variations of which only those survive which are best adapted to their environment; the Lamarckian theory that...