Word: nested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having done this much for the advertising business, conscientious A. & S. saw "obvious dynamite" in the Lasser piece, imagined "future cries against advertisers evading taxes by nest-feathering." It therefore showed the piece (before publication) to the Treasury, asked the Treasury whether "more than normal advertising should be regarded as unpatriotic." Back came the Treasury's reply. It agreed that abnormal advertising expense was deductible, would not guess as to whether the Government would win (through the additional business created) or lose by it, and concluded: "It is felt here that it is not the province of the Treasury...
Some 630,000 out-of-staters eyed the Exposition's exhibits, spent roughly $17,200,000 in San Francisco. Salvage value of the buildings, thanks in part to high steel-scrap prices, will be at least $125,000. Already a nest for wide-winged transpacific clippers, Treasure Island may be turned into a huge airport. But last week no one knew who would foot the bill...
...always thought that the reason Snavely stirred up a hornet's nest by the charge that Duke took movies of Carolina's games previous to their skirmish in 1935 was due to the fact that it was in those films that the Duke staff found out that Coach Snavely also played quaretrback. It was quite a sight...
...been concentrated in Stavanger, Bergen, Antwerp, Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Calais, Boulogne, Brest and all the way down to the Bay of Biscay. That big convoys of merchant supply and transport ships had been port-hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction...
...German bitterness grew really ear nest over "a particularly detestable, low-down British weapon": the "self-igniting leaf." This was described as a three-inch cardboard or celluloid card with a cut-out centre, into which was pasted a flat core of guncotton and phosphorus. When dropped by night, the cards were slightly damp. When they dried out-it might take ten minutes or ten years, depending on where they fell-the reaction of oxygen on phosphorus made them burst into flame. This weapon, railed the Germans, was "obviously directed against the German youth, the German harvest. . . ." Officials complained that...