Word: stumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
North of Rangoon the advance was two-pronged. Moving along the rail line to Mandalay and the Burma Road's stump, one army approached the black ruins of Toungoo. Another went forward along a rail spur and highway toward Prome (home of one of Kipling's famed Ladies), an unhealthy town of 30,000 in a bowl of pagoda-topped hills. Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung. The British were tired. The somber phrase, "delaying actions," popped up in dispatches day after day. One day there was action near Nyaunglebin, south of Toungoo; next...
District 50 had already moved in on powder and munition plants, chemicals, gas works. Miss Lewis moved in deeper, spread into cosmetics, electric utilities. She went after casket workers (embalming fluids are chemicals), boatyard employes (varnish is chemically derived). She cast a soft eye on stump-pullers in Louisiana, drop-forge workers in Michigan. Early in the game she and Father John convinced themselves that the country's 3,000,000 dairy farmers were naturals as Coke & Chemical members. After all, milk contains casein, which is used in cosmetics, plastics...
...week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...
...Questions?, familiarly known as "The Brains Trust," brings together as regulars an old sea dog, a fluent philosopher and a famed scientist-all three bossed by a London wit. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, its object is not to stump the experts but to draw them out. BBC now receives more than 2,000 questions a week, of which the likeliest dozen or so are popped to the Brains Trust during its three-quarters of an hour (5:15 to 6 p.m. Sundays...
...Administrative Board mentioned in its original recommendation to the Faculty are of a weak and answerable nature. The plan, they say, would "place a heavy burden on the faculty." This burden can mean nothing more than the trouble of drumming up two sets of Generals hard enough to stump a Harvard Senior. But surely it will not overtax the professional chefs to cook up just one extra set of exams for mid-years of 1942. The present Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors will not be a problem, since they can use the three-year acceleration program...