Word: sucking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themes had preoccupied the attention of many of the most absurd artists; one was Death, the other was Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Novel materials for expressing alleged thoughts were few in number; the most noteworthy was a three dimensional drawing, or skeleton sculpture, of a she-wolf giving suck to two small boys. The lines of the she-wolf's body were indicated in copper wire; her mammary glands were represented by door stops. Of the other exhibits a few may be briefly described as follows...
...humorous, dynamic statesman is Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Last week he could suck his eternal plump cigar contentedly and even smugly over a sheaf of treasury reports. They showed that, with less than a month to go before the fiscal year ends on March 31, there is every prospect that the daring jugglery embodied in Mr. Churchill's present budget (TIME, April 18) will indeed enable him to make ends meet at his estimated total...
Foils: M. R. Berliner '28 defeated. Lavine (B. U.) 5-4, Suck (B. U.) defeated J. S. Oettinger '30, 5-3, D. I. Modell '30 defeated Lavine (B. U.) 5-2, C. B. Hollister '29 defeated Woolfson (B. U.) 5-2. Modell defeated Suck (B. U.) 5-2, Woolfson (B. U.) defeated M. N. Copeland '29 5-3, Hollister defeated Lavine (B. U.) 5-4, Woolfson (B. U.) defeated Berliner 5-4, Holister defeated Suck...
...than four parts of the gas in 10,000 of air was dangerous. To prevent disaster absolutely Chief Engineer Holland installed 84 ventilating fans in four 10 story buildings, two on each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...
...each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...