Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have consistently pointed out that neither we, nor any nation, will accept disarmament while neighbor nations arm to the teeth. If there is not general disarmament we ourselves must continue to arm. It is a step we do not like to take, and do not wish to take...
...hospital work. In a decision, long expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with more warlike teeth: light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns and tanks...
Author Coyle is against both economizing in a small way and centralizing in a big way. On centralization, he says: "We should remember the mighty race of dinosaurs that thundered across the earth, with their vast bulk, armor-plated hides, long teeth and peanut brains. When the climate changed they had no ideas....The best we can hope is to have as little big business as possible, and to keep the disadvantages of bigness as small as possible...." So New Dealer Coyle favors Government regulation of bigness by yardsticks, taxes, control of money, discouragement of too much capital investment...
...trouble appears to have started when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store...
...suggested that more data could be found on his life in Who's Who in which he is listed, the poet, who doesn't conform in the slightest to the usual pictures of a poet, laughingly said, "Not only that, but I can clean skates with my teeth...