Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncle learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
...Whalen figured. Big for world's fairs, it wasn't big enough for the biggest. Into executive session went major industrial exhibitors (investment: $35,000,000) and voted to ask the Fair to cut the gate to 50?. Concessionaires, whose girl shows have failed to turn the trick at the tills, went further. Their demand: a 25? admission fee at night...
...News has to com press into one-fourth as much space enough news to keep the paper competitive with the bulky Times and Herald Tribune. News stories, unlike conventional newspaper stories, start at the beginning, move with swift narrative pace to the end. Big, shaggy Harvey Deuell learned this trick while on the city desk of the News, where he used to rewrite nearly every important story. He had a scientist's cold, impersonal approach to tabloid journalism, delighted in thinking up euphemisms to say what the paper could not say in so many words. Constant readers...
...Roosevelt, 97%; voice quality excellent, delivery excellent, mannerisms good, poise excellent. "His Harvard accent . . . would alienate him at once from the common man were it not overcome by the deep sincerity of his radio presentation." Only other noticeable blemish: the phrase "My friends," which "now seems like a radio trick...
...With the new Carrier outfit, already proved experimentally, no flame regulation will be necessary; it can condense an average of some 20 tons of water out of Birmingham Valley's smoky atmosphere daily, feed air of constant low humidity into the furnace. If successful, the new air-conditioning trick will remove one more human element from smelting, make pig of new uniformity...