Word: skeltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. Only solemn little Floor Leader Isom Guillory pretended to take much interest as the House passed one bill per minute on to its Ways & Means Committee. Next morning Senator Long had to send one of his plug-uglies out to round up the Committee. They came helter skelter, sat surrounded by Long bodyguards and State police while the Kingfish "explained" his bills. Next day the House sluggishly spent a full three minutes per bill in giving its final approval...
...Chicago, bondholders of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities petitioned for reorganization in bankruptcy rather than in equity. In St. Louis bondholders in Laclede Gas and St. Louis Public Service marched up to the judge, demanding a new corporate deal. In Wilmington three prime examples of helter-skelter public utility holding companies were dusted off -Central West Public Service, Consolidated Gas Utilities. National Public Utilities. And from coast to coast countless other corporations or their long suffering security holders rushed for shelter under the wide roof of Section 77th...
...Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left-handed forward named Les Witte, brother of Coach Willard ("Dutch") Witte. In a double-header last week against Colorado College he scored...
With a six-point lead Navy had to fight Penn every inch of the way through a helter-skelter game in which players stumbled with the ball, fumbled at critical moments, crashed into each other. In the last minutes of play Navy intercepted a Penn pass for a second touchdown, null Northwestern's Halfback Leeper showed bad judgment when he picked up an Ohio State punt instead of letting it roll across his own goal line. He was tackled hard. He fumbled. Ohio State's Quarterback Pincura fell on the ball for a touchdown. In the next period...
...rodlike chromosomes of the germ cells, like links of sausage, are ultramicroscopic units (genes) which transmit individual characteristics (say, brown eyes) from parent to child. 2) When the chromosomes of the two parents mingle in the egg (which ultimately becomes their child), the genes do not mix helter-skelter but "cross over" in groups. That is why, for example, in Drosophila, black body color tends to be inherited with purple eyes, vestigial wings, and a speck at the base of the wings...