Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe if I were you I would think things over, swallow my pride, and apologize. At least I would point out, if I could, that some of the 50 million were French or German or something and that there are still some nice fellows and timid souls in the U. S. who don't indulge in Mae West...
...work his way through high school and Miner Teachers College, where he was an R.O.T.C. officer, sold Negro newspapers. He got a job with the National Youth Administration. Congressman Mitchell thought he was tough enough to fight his own battles, might force Annapolis and the Navy to swallow their lily-white tradition. Last week Patron Mitchell had a shock. George Trivers' mother let him know that her son had resigned from the Naval Academy...
...great was the Cabinet's anxiety that it decided Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden must swallow his Yorkshire pride, ask Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi to transmit a "personal appeal" to Premier Mussolini to keep the Bari station quiet about partition of Palestine. Since elegant Mr. Eden two years ago had an encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable...
...with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath and complains of sciatica, and sometimes she prefers to keep her sciatica and remain sterile...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, since he is now bossing Mr. Eden's every move (see p. 16), to rise in the House of Commons and either publicly swallow what so many Britons could not swallow last week, or take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would...