Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet Merriam in Fuel and Management. His bark is worse than his bite. As long as your old man uses Standard Oil, you're in. Then there is Arthur Hanson. He'll yell and yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course is use "plain common sense." Then there will be Mr. Bliss and his slide ruling partners, McNeil and Bingham. Statistics...
...profess any such vision or any such knowledge. . . . Mr. President, this question is greater than political parties. It is greater than the Democratic Party. It is greater than even the Republican Party. This is a great world problem and I do not wish to treat it from a 'peanut' attitude. . . . There ought to be an American attitude...
...Department of Agriculture's Daniel F. J. Lynch of New Orleans announced that peanut oil now makes a good substitute for olive oil in salads, mayonnaise and for industrial uses. Peanut proteins already have a big new market in a glue for paper and wood. In Georgia, the peanut crop is already close to cotton in value, may soon pass it, may even compete with soybeans for commercial interest...
...other instrument has such a range; the highest and lowest notes of the biggest organs nudge the limits of human audibility. No other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
While on the subject of the faculty, (and it ought to be worth four Distinc's at least) it was good for a laugh the other day to see Professor "Peanut Wagon" Hanson come in, set his books down, look impatiently at the stragglers, then realize he was in the wrong classroom to rush out red-faced...