Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present are expected to get B's, otherwise they wouldn't have been chosen for the course. The C which rolls around at November may, therefore, dishearten the hopeful author and considerably deflate his ego. He will discover, however, that Mr. De Voto's bark is worse than his bite. Despite the wilting comments which decorate his themes the student will find his marks gradually improving, as he learns to purify his technique and eliminate errors of syntax which would, to quote an average comment, "disgrace a student in English...
...peak is past. As Detroit motor plants roared toward the close of a 400,000-car month, A. F. of L. leaders gnashed their teeth with the realization that their advantage over the employers was slipping. Soon their talk of an industry-wide walkout would lose its bite. Easy-going Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President to settle the industry's collective bargaining problem, infuriated the labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company...
...Holland quickly filled in additional details. Three days before the Optimist sailed, another German freighter of almost the same size, the Jupiter, docked at Rotterdam and began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final pacification of Morocco...
Vincent Astor. present in a professional as well as a social capacity, and Captain Herman Gray, famed master of Gulf Stream fishing, who used to pilot President Hoover to good fishing grounds and who remarked : "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber...
...Doylestown, Wis., John McMann and Russell McMann were arrested for burglarizing the general store. When the sheriff carefully fitted a piece of cheese in John McMann's mouth, found the tooth marks matched a bite taken during the burglary, John McMann confessed...