Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the laboratories where German researchers find new ways to build and kill. Hitler & Co. being anxious to frighten Great Britain and France before Munich, it is more than likely that his reports on German air strength which repolished his reputation last week were the same which helped to tarnish it a few weeks earlier. Certainly the German Government knew, if the U. S. public had forgotten, that Colonel Lindbergh is still an officer of the U. S. Air Corps Reserve, and a member of the Government-supported National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, whose function is to develop and gather...
Princeton last week-did nothing to tarnish. There are many elements to a musical show-music, lyrics, libretto, costumes, sets, dancers, singers, comics. It is not algebraically likely that any college production would excel in each department each year. But Fol-De-Rol bats a very satisfactory .500 or better...
...will say in their defence that they must be strong not to be corroded by the doubt we throw at them daily, at the way we allow calumny to tarnish them, and yet expect them to go on giving their time, health, patience, brains, faculties, whilst we, the people, believe ourselves justified in throwing stones at them at all seasons of the year. It really is becoming rather a one-sided game-too much take and too little give-all work and no play...
...mainly for foreign consumption, for her lack of the yellow metal, and not to be taken without several large grains of salt. Behind her poverty may be discerned foreign balances convertible into gold nestling coyly in vaults in New York and elsewhere, though, it must be confessed hardly collecting tarnish there. In support of this view may be adduced the seeming abundance of the wherewithal to purchase back her foreign bonds previously depressed first, by partially substituting scrip for gold payment on interest, and then defaulting entirely upon maturity of the securities...
...stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast iron, not forged steel, cannot be, sharpened and are used for little but paper cutting. Some moderate success in stimulating business has been obtained by marketing chrome-steel scissors that will not tarnish, and magnetized scissors useful in picking up pins & needles...