Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the Swiss Federal Council was fearful that Dictator Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...
...column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like a Roman Catholic; work for it like a Salvation Army Lassie; enjoy...
Aside from Lucrezia Bori who resigned last spring (TIME, April 6), 16 singers were not scheduled to return this year. Johnson declared he would stick to last year's plan of fostering young talents by planting them in the spring season, but that they must not be billed for the regular season. Firmly he let it be known that this year would be one of weeding out incompetents...
...Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that Frank drive from the campus all "individuals and societies" of a radical tinge. The President preferred to stick to the ideals of academic freedom...
...camp fire, inspecting our equipment for the following day. We scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper waxing one can lessen slipping backward when climbing...