Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered the balls at the rail for a run of 163, then carelessly missed the first ball in an easy carom. It was Poensgen's turn to be nervous. He sniffed at a glass of ice-water, stared warily at the ceiling, plucked at the sleeves of his tight black silk jacket. His longest runs were 50 and 12. Soussa...
...they will, quiets them with his taunts: 'Why should you waste your souls in the west! You are young: 'Tell them you left us here by the last water 'Going up through the pass of the hills with the sun: 'Tell them that in the tight towns when you talk of us 'The west is dangerous for thoughtful men: 'Eastward is all sure: all as it ought to be: 'A man may know the will of God by the fences. . . .' Shamed, his men swashbuckle down to their jobs, fight their way over...
...principal difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...
...chief business ability is in advertising ; outside of the office his consuming interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography. He repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...
Humble pie is not included in the rations of a general officer of the U. S. Army, active or retired. No exception is tight-lipped Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, veteran of many an Army campaign since 1892, who retired last year as Chief of Staff to become president of the Citadel, South Carolina's State military college at Charleston...