Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Buffalo's publicity wise Bell Aircraft Corp. delivered a single experimental super bomber-fighter to the U. S. Army Air Corps last July they dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...
...have a limited acquaintance with the species professor Harvardus, although I have heard quite a few specimens of the animal both in class and out. Perhaps the only generalization I can make about them is that they hibernate in the library and other warm places...
...Superstitious reporters noted that the delegates numbered 13. Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those labor disputes that greys the hair of the National Labor Relations Board-a dispute variously known as the "warm applesauce case" or the "case of the peacock china...
This week, at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Manhattan, critics inspected the work of a young man from Baltimore who seemed to be getting warm. Mervin Jules, 25, does not yet wear the mantle of Daumier (see col. 3), but among his 20 tempera paintings and score of gouaches (opaque water colors) there were several which allowed spectators not only to see poverty but to see into it. Several others showed a spirit and skill at caricature which located Jules below but in line with Rivera, Orozco, Grosz and other effective satirists of social horrors...
...started last year, when Assistant Coach Bill Neufeld was having lunch with Doctor Book of the Hygiene Department, and Harvard Physicist Victor Guilleman. Neufeld was curious as to whether or not there might be some scientific device with which to determine the proper warm up for a given man for a given man for a given distames...