Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological histories were distinct...
...wages and keep them out of any kind of labor organization. United Mine Workers' President John Llewellyn Lewis ringingly offered a union code. He argued his organization was the only stabilizing influence in an industry ruled by "the law of the jungle," that tycoons, "in spite of fluent lip service to the principles of the National Recovery Act," were taking a "narrow and indefensible attitude" toward its execution. Important mine operators who supported his code included Cleveland's Frank E. Taplin (North American Coal Corp.), Chicago's George Bates Harrington (Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal) and Omaha...
Last week Chancellor Hitler had had enough of Latvia's lip. He sent four German destroyers on a "friendly visit" to Riga, Latvia's capital, which Germans captured in 1917, held until November 1918 when the Latvian Republic was recognized by the Allies. As the destroyers nosed in, President Albert Kviesis of Latvia watched from his palace. Police reserves were called out to pre vent a Riga crowd from starting trouble when the German sailors came ashore. "Germany intends to conquer Latvia!" shrilled a demonstrator who was soon shushed. In future, the Latvian Government announced, German railway cars...
...always woke up at six o'clock in the morning and had to be quieted. He walked the floor thinking of all the damned stupid calls he would have to make. He couldn't find a sharp razor blade and his eyes smarted. He cut himself painfully on the lip, and couldn't find a shoe-horn. The coffee always tasted stale the way he made it, and he away fried the eggs too long so that they were greasy and brown. The morning paper wouldn't stay propped up against the sugar-bowl. Perfunctorily, he pecked his wife goodbye...