Word: stinkingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding-boards were confronted with nonsense words there was no marked preference...
...requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest, two men last week threw stink bombs through the window of her house...
...make sand pies. She had taken them in to supper and put them sleepily to bed before she learned that in Vienna 144 brutal young men had contrived the assassination of her husband in a manner which, said the outraged London Times, "makes the name of Nazi stink in the nostrils of the world...
...broad and militant a movement inevitably precipitated opposition from other students. In some places Fascist Clubs were organized. This was true of the University of Colorado with its American Brown Shirts, and Columbia, where the Fascists brought in Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C...
Dark, filthy, insanitary city stink-holes were one of President Hoover's pet aversions. During his administration the R. F. C. voted $1,500,000,000 for loans to 'limited-dividend housing corporations for the building of light, airy modern apartments. Slum clearance is also dear to the heart of President Roosevelt. When he set up the Public Works Administration under Secretary Ickes, a part of its funds was to be used for city housing. To date $46,219,958 has been allotted for that purpose. But bankers with delinquent mortgages and landlords with vacant property have doggedly...