Word: queered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blue eyes were sharper than April sky, and if he rubbed his hands with queer, excited jerks, that was only natural. Excitement makes him thrive and happy. Moreover he was about to compose his own words of destiny...
...lived like Windy McPherson's son, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Clyde, Ohio. With a boy's keen eyes he had seen the hates, passions and queer lives that lie just be hind the drab fagade of a small...
...Federal statute books since 1863 has been a queer old law passed to curb Civil War profiteering. The law: any citizen who learned of fraud against the U. S. could sue to recover the losses for his Government, plus as much again for him to keep for his pains. For a long time a young Pittsburgh lawyer named Morris Leo Marcus has believed that there was life in the old statute yet. Last week his theory proved to be worth...
Many an odd task has been performed and much queer data has been excavated with the cooperation of the Lehman switchboard manipulators. The General University Information Office (located in University Hall basement and on the KIR 7600 exchange) has a complete file of professors' home addresses, open hours of dining halls, location of class meetings, and other minutiae of a modern educational community. Non-University questions are often answered by Widener. During the Penn Game weekend, operators managed to put through an emergency call from New Hampshire to a Sophomore in Philly--finally locating him after two hours of assiduous...
...young republic, fearing a warlord of continental Europe, undertook its first full-fledged defense program. From the Federal Government in Philadelphia Whitney got a contract for 10,000 muskets. But New Haven whispered of the queer doings at the new arms factory: Whitney wasn't building muskets at all, he was building machines. When delivery was called for, Whitney could show only 500 muskets and a weird machine shop...