Word: spates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great deal of popular enthusiasm, had conveyed the impression that a great many important people were backing it. Of the more than 80 sponsors of the Washington gathering, nearly all bore "The Hon." before their names. Among them were six Cabinet members, a score of Senators, a spate of Congressmen. These big names had been gathered very much as supporters for a bill are gathered by lobbyists...
Rocking in the wake of Mr. Stuart Scrymgeour's artificial-flowery spate of indignation (TIME, Jan. 9), I am reminded that contemporaries of Alexander Scrymgeour, of the days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established...
...imitators of the Anti-Mothball Society have yet been reported. But last week in Dublin, Ga., Rev. T. B. Seibenham put a notice SEATS FREE on his Centenary Methodist Church, on the chance that it might increase attendance. The sign attracted such an unaccustomed spate of worshipers that Mr. Seibenham took a second look at it. It had been altered to read: EATS FREE...
...current spate of scientific meetings is like a late spring housecleaning which gives theorists and experimenters a chance to clear their research shelves toward the close of an academic year. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week the X-particle, newest and queerest of physics' collection of atomic particles, which weighs much more than an electron but much less than a proton (TIME, Nov. 29). came in for a good deal of housewifely attention...
Chief protagonist on the Arab side was Seyyid Hikmat Suleiman, Prime Minister of Iraq who issued a spate of violent pronouncements damning the partition. Arab chiefs promptly assumed that Prime Minister Suleiman's outburst was part of "a British job." They argued that if Britain really favored the partition, Iraq would not have dared poke her nose...