Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitey has apparently changed his tune and his strategy. Instead of playing up Dartmouth's prodigious strength as of past years, this fall's epistles from Hanover contain tear-jerking reports of pear material and a light and inexperienced squad. However, it's the same prolific Whitey. His articles may lack optimism, but their frequency, length, and intensity remain...
...Middle Western college student talks to him about the rights of neutrals rather than about women. Other college students let him go as a bloody snob. The Boston city father labels him a terror, to be put down with tear-gas and billies on a balmy spring evening...
...blue-walled room stood a vase of roses; on the table behind a vase of gladioli. Signs of stress were an electrically tuned radio on a chair near the fireplace, another radio near Eddie Moore's door, a calendar from which careful Secretary Moore had forgotten to tear off the August sheet...
...observed in Europe's air forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...