Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family last year, it was learned that even her husband loved her. "He appears to have suffered deeply," says Peter Quennell, "both from his wife's indifference ... and from the extravagance with which she dispensed sums of money he had often been at some pains to scrape together...
...that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously outlined...
...interminable leases not so much because of size as because he felt and feels that human administrative capacity has grave limits. In 1915, appearing before a Congressional committee with a new bill aimed at monopoly, he quoted a German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies." Hundreds of times and in hundreds of ways he has expressed the same theme- a theme which marks the enormous difference between his liberal thinking and that, for instance, which is exemplified by the New Deal...
From what I can scrape up, Mr. Fathead doesn't get along too well with Prince Charming. In the morning I notice not many words pass between them. But then Mr. Fathead generally has a headache, and he seems to grow gruffer if he sees Prince Charming smiling and joking...
...good view of the disaster could be had from the couch across the room, and the space in front of the windows was cleared to accomodate the speedy influx of curious. One floor had the makings of a loud speaker rigged up so that even the most minute scrape could be detected...