Word: snubbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent diggings in Nebraska revealed a few similar and more perfect teeth. These the museum staff had studied and were delighted to learn that they had erred in their first deduction. The teeth, they announced last week, had served no anthropoidal beast, but an ancient, bristly, snub-nosed pig, a peccary, rooting in Nebraska several millenia...
Gabriel Snubbers (which snub motor cars' jerks)-$960,330. Previous year, $1,033,630. President George H. Rails reminded stockholders that automobile production had fallen off 22% in 1927, Gabriel's earnings only...
...months ago the U. S. Treasury Department lost three words. Last week the three lost words were found. They had caused the British Commonwealth of Nations to rebuke the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury; the United States of America to snub the British Commonwealth of Nations; and the U. S. Secretary of State to be interrupted in a round of golf...
...battered, snub-nosed taxicab...
Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...