Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand. They inspected the maintenance fund, found only $505.23. Unless students were to catch pneumonia, they figured, the University would have to close in ten days. For half a year they had been trying vainly to arouse the public to the predicament of a cashless University. A new tack was clearly indicated. Presently in the Ohio State Journal appeared a doleful story pointing out that if the Uni-versity stopped functioning, so would the football team...
...result of our efforts, I trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable book of Arabian Nights for romance...
...unity. Few years ago he made a start toward a "Unified Field Theory," abandoned it when irreconcilable flaws cropped up. Lately at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton he and Dr. Nathan Rosen, co-author of last week's paper, started off on a new and better tack...
...behalf of a promising young manufacturer we might as well call Ford, by one of the biggest agencies in the country, that had the most incredible mistakes so far as the polo background was concerned: the noble steed shown was some curious kind of saddle horse, the tack might have come as a premium for Spratt's dog food, the helmet was an invention of the artist, the sideboards had posts on the inside of the field, and so forth...
...Height is just an optical illusion," continued this man to whom altitude means nothing. "Anyone can look out of a 20 story window, but take the wall away and no one will go within ten feet of the edge. Tack a cotton cloth along that edge and people will bravely step up to it again...