Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...
...plan is to increase the total amount to be given labor. This is to be accomplished by an increase in the pay envelopes all along the line. This means added costs. It also means less profits for stockholders. The latter aspect will not cause much gnashing of teeth or weeping nowadays, for stockholders as a class are supposed to be a relatively small number of persons anyway. They are expected to benefit some day when prosperity comes back...
...President had not canceled the contracts but Washington and the world well knew that Postmaster General Farley would never have dared to sign the cancellation without the approval of his President. ¶ Besides his airmail action the President gave U. S. businessmen another jolt that made their back teeth rattle. He sent a message recommending Congress to undertake regulation of stock and commodities exchanges, a message timed to be published along with the introduction of a drastic bill (see p. 49) designed to stop all big businessmen from trading in the stock of their companies. ¶ President Roosevelt sent another...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening them. Out in the daylight for the first time in 91 years the bones-teeth, bits of jaw, tibia, femur-were placed in a handsome new relic room in St. William's Chapel. In each box was a time-yellowed "authentic" identifying the saints whose bones the relics once were: Theophilus, Vincentius and Aelius, pagan Romans who became Christian, were martyred about...