Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier. It is a wave motion and the longer the glacier, the longer it takes to reach the foot. Scientists pooh-poohed a man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan earthquake of 1899 that it would set a whole string of coastal glaciers in motion years later. He made up a time-table for each glacier. It was surprisingy accurate. From 1906 to 1910, just...
...this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini...
Completed last week by the young New Orleans cotton house of Tullis, Craig & Co. was one of the smartest cotton market operations in many a moon. It was not a spectacular coup. Indeed Partner Garner H. Tullis tried to pooh-pooh accumulating gossip with a signed statement: "I wish to state in regard to the so-called operations of our firm in December that the entire story has been greatly exaggerated both in magnitude and effect...
...East Coast. Last week, undergraduate newspapers at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale simultaneously printed identical editorials advocating that the "Ivy League" be made a reality with conference rules, schedule restrictions patterned on those of the Midwest's Big Ten. "Ivy League" athletic officials pooh-poohed the idea...
...greatest neurologists of the 19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with...