Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of 50 a day pink-cheeked U. S. youths and several blue-jawed men who said they were ex-U. S. Marines were turned away by the Brazilian Consulate General. But another species of U. S. help was welcome. Quiet dickering for bombing planes began. During the week it was frequently reported that President Hoover had no intention of laying an embargo on exports of such weapons to Brazil...
...visitors have an unusually heavy eleven for a small college team and as is always the case with a Y. M. C. A. team, are in the pink of condition. In its two games so far this year Spring-field has astounded its opponents with the rapidity with which it has gotten in-to action...
...table before the judges were the exhibits in the case: books, anti-Fascist pamphlets belonging to de Rosa, and the ridiculous little nickel-plated pistol which he had fired. Prisoner de Rosa, 22, stood in the dock. Blond, pink-cheeked, he wore an expensive grey suit, had employed his year in jail by growing enormously...
Every year the Hearstpapers, largest consumers of newsprint in the world, use approximately 465,000 tons of white, green, pink and peach colored paper. Last year hard-hitting President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper Co. (subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.) got the contract to supply Hearst with newsprint for five years at $55.20 per ton. Later he fought-and bested-the premiers of Quebec and Ontario when they tried to up the price to $60 (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). But the position of a U. S. paper company in Canada is not an easy one. More- over...
...pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole...