Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Frank J. Swayze 2L expressed perfect confidence in the ability of the team to nose out Amherst, which presents the main threat, and Smith, which is rumored to have a number of expert flyers. It is not expected that the other colleges will figure heavily in the scoring...
...bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read his statement, his words crackled and thundered with oldtime gusto. Excerpts...
...German released from a Nazi prison camp tells his friends what a fine time he had there-plenty to eat, games all day long and a wonderful library. "But how did you get your nose broken and your ear torn off?" neighbors...
...Simple Richard Roiderer was still upon his shoulders, after ten months in the fog of Nazidom's New Justice, was recently ascertained and he was brought from Munich to Berlin with a cut over his left eye and a large, reddish scab on the bridge of his nose...
...premium of 11? on the dollar. Without warning, the Baldwin directors suddenly announced that interest payments, not on the bonds publicly held, but on those in the sinking fund, would be suspended. On that first admission of financial difficulties, Baldwin's 6% bonds took a deep nose-dive that carried them down 34 points in three days to 77? on the dollar...