Word: snorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from this subdued snort of annoyance, President Gifford's report was confined to a dispassionate summary of the activities of the world's largest communications company. Excerpts: In 1937 it earned $182,342,866 ($9.76 a share) against $184,744,464 ($9.89 a share) in 1936. It thus barely covered the $9 annual dividend it paid last year for the 16th successive year. Total operating revenues increased 5.7% to $1,051,379,343 , but total operating expenses increased 7.5% to $708,479,450. This fact, plus the gradual dwindling of business toward the end of the year...
...general deluxing, TWA last year turned its attention to fares, reduced them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever the squawk, it costs less to travel from Newark to Chicago than it did a year ago, thanks to us." Last week TWA again set fire to the passenger fare structure, horrifying its rivals by suddenly introducing nationwide air "excursions" that for the first time put general airplane...
...fields outside his own specialty, then spent four years visiting some 50 workshops and talking to scientists. Once at Mt. Wilson Observatory he found a Hollywood actress among a group of visitors looking through a telescope at star clusters, saw her turn away from the eyepiece, heard her snort, "aw, nerts." Not for Hollywood actresses, but for the intelligent public, he undertook in Outposts of Science to cover genetics, anthropology, physical and mental disease, glands, vitamins, insects, matter, radiation, astrophysics, star-galaxies, weather...
...Lawyer Liebowitz it is all in the day's work. Routed from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...
Whether knowledge of the sort can be adequately imparted in classroom will, of course, be the ultimate test of the school's usefulness. Many, no doubt, will snort at the idea, but since it has never had a trial it deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...