Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pooh-Bah. In Hobart, Okla., County Attorney Carpenter Hughes, arrested for drunkenness, declined to press charges against himself...
...miniature radio transmitter. Various attempts had been made to shush the plugs, but none had succeeded well. The professor focused his mind on the problem, dived into his basement workshop and soon had a solution. He scoffs at newspaper stories of how he worked 20 years on his invention. "Pooh," he says. "I didn't work more than 20 minutes...
Last week Dr. Abbot laid himself wide open to pooh-poohs by all professional weather forecasters. Like the almanac makers, he had made some broad weather forecasts, and he had projected them a full year ahead...
Ever since he was a boy on a New Hampshire farm, Charles Greeley Abbot has pooh-poohed the almanacs' weather forecasters. "We used to get a farmers' almanac," he says, "and it would say something like: 'About this time, look for a frost.' It didn't pin down the area, or the day, and people took it in three or four states. How in the world could it miss...
Spars on all 2023 were later reinforced, and Hunter's line is still flying a fleet of 24. Both Martin and Northwest pooh-poohed the lawsuit, and Glenn Martin said it was just "a quarrel between insurance companies which doesn't affect us at all." But neither company stood to win a legal battle if it started passengers worrying all over again about the planes...