Word: maine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next afternoon just as the ancient twin-funneled royal yacht sailed off toward Portsmouth harbor, there broke from its yardarm the little signal flags dear to every sailor's heart. By the tactics of 100 years ago they meant, "Splice the Main-Brace," i.e., repair the stays holding up the middle of a frigate's three masts. By venerable naval usage "Splice the Main-Brace" means to issue an extra round of navy rum to every man jack aboard ship. Again the fleet...
...Insurance Bureau, Assistant Director Antoshkin of the Scientific Research Institute and Comrade Miliutan, editor of a trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade unions must be overhauled, converted into thoroughgoing "Schools of Communism...
...unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion of the world for insulting Nick's mistress, Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery, gun feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself...
Last Fall in his Tercentenary address, President Conant in speaking of the "four main streams" that have watered the soil of University education, said that "the cultivation of learning alone; produces not a University, but a research institute." He then went on to describe what happens when any one of these main streams becomes overemphasized, and concluded that a proper balance must be maintained between all four...
Although Yale was exonerated on the two main points of academic freedom and civil liberties, President Angell was sharply rebuked for his letter, characterized as "ill-advised" and "indiscreet," to Dean Weigle of the Divinity School, written when its faculty board was about to vote on Professor Davis's reappointment. The report quoted the following phrase from the letter: "I must say that I think Jerome is becoming an increasing nuisance and my patience is inevitably wearing rather thin...