Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests, and it is to be hoped that each man does as well as he possibly can, in order that the College may make a fair estimate of him at this time...
...band, aided by individual knife-on-plate technique featured the organized pep meeting in the dining hall before the meal, a meal during which you couldn't have heard a bomb go off. As soon as one cheer ended another would start with the class giving it standing on their chairs. The customary quiet settled after dinner but if this evenings display was a trustworthy example there will be plenty of noise from the Navy stands tomorrow...
...eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a pearl-diver's knife and other tools, and could even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there was hell...
Japanese editors praised Admiral Hasegawa for "his Samurai-like and knightly attitude" in giving advance warning to the foe. Since in modern times accepted Japanese strategy has been a knife-in-the-back thrust without warning, the Samurai-Admiral appeared almost a freak. To get to Nanking before the deadline he had set for its destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with...
Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...