Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came...
...sleep normally (TIME, March 9). In Hungary there is a woman of 80 who says she has been continuously awake since 1911. Such people are either lying or they do not realize that they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that of a man who went 231 hours-about 9½ days-with almost no sleep.* Loss of sleep can produce complete insensibility to noise and a high degree of anesthesia to pain...
...utter unreasonableness of the union's demands made that impossible,'' snapped President Milburn...
...added demands. The Florida canal was started with great excitement, but as soon as the initial fanfare had died down, funds were withdrawn, and the project temporarily abandoned. This must not happen to the Department of Justice, since the work has been begun admirably, and it would be utter folly to curtail its usefulness, just as it has reached the point where Americans are entitled to be extremely proud of it. If the Federal Government wishes to redeem itself, and for once carry through a large project without changing its mind, it should not haggle over...
...Harvard Student Union has not "...committed the utter folly of intrusting the determination of its policies to a nation-wide organization over which it has no control whatsoever." The National Committee of the American Student Union has no more control over the Harvard Student Union than the Harvard Student Union enjoys over the National Committee. Probably it has very much less. The Chairman of the National Committee was once an officer of the Harvard Liberal Club, and of still more significance, the President of the Harvard Student Union is also a member of the National Committee. Far from being...