Word: staved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sing a stave of Heaven...
...smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia and accounts of the ravages of amnesia, American politicians may now employ a little scientific venisimilitude in order to stave off the disapproval of their constituents for another term...
...adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well-told?quite without sentimentality, sweetness or light...
Federal immigration authorities ordered out of the country 17 foreign-born students enrolled at the American International College, Springfield, Mass. The students were post-quota entrants to the U. S. Chancellor McGowan attempted to stave off his pupils' deportation by urging that their status as students afforded a refuge from the rigors of quota...
...necessity for rebuilding Japanese cities has tended to impart strength to material prices, and to stave off prospects for lower prices here for another year. In consequence, American builders are now going ahead again, instead of waiting for lower costs. Even the conservative investor is not so inclined to hesitate over present expensive construction, after realizing the prospective Japanese demand for building materials...