Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where does Mr. Roosevelt get this "permanent" stuff? Spokesmen for Naziism claim their regime will last 10,000 years, but in this country, we understand, there is an election once in every one twenty-five hundredth of that time...
...forecast yet anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans are trying to steal our clothes on that issue...
...Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth...
...looking for an artificial abrasive, found on the tip of a carbon electrode a few bright specks of an unknown substance. This, he discovered, was hard enough to cut glass and, when applied with oil to a wheel, would cut the face of a diamond tool. Acheson called the stuff "carborundum," because he thought it was composed of corundum and carbon before it was analyzed as silicon carbide. The first crude furnace produced a quarter-pound of carborundum a day. which was sold to jewelers for $880 per Ib. Frank Tone, a good businessman as well as an able scientist...
Once able to pay 10? a word for material, Adventure now gets most of its stuff for about 3? a word. "A good writer.'' says Editor Bloomfield, ''is never paid what he is worth...