Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass over Professor Wiener's sneer about the "journalistic status" of certain writers. Journalists must be excused for writing less and less about more and more, otherwise the poor public might lose touch with the profundities of modern research, and not endow the Great Minds with a lifetime (not to mention innumerable vacations and sabbatical years) in which to grow wiser and wiser...
...Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country," at his public swagger, but there could be no sneering at the flying records that he has won in the stiffest competition. His speed racing began in earnest...
...learning, and then married. Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
...superimposing a sneer upon his menacing demeanour) You have fallen in love with that Austrian--(gargling the--). But you have sworn the oath with us! You shall get that...
...last year at various times I have been surprised at articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared in it concerning Rev. Charles Coughlin. I will not attempt to defend him for he needs no defense. His magnificent loyalty and splendid principles are well known to the American people. For a publication like TIME to put the stamp of bigotry on itself and to openly...