Word: chiseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened into granite. . . . His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard as metal and as narrow as a chisel...
PITTSBURGH-Trustees of the University of Pittsburg tonight gave Charles W. (Chisel) Bowser a 3-year contract as head coach of the University's football team and at the same time appointed a committee to investigate Pitt's "athletic situation...
...guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy is poor. No scaffolding was ever built so meticulously from such solid materials...
...Brooklyn Tablet, official organ of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y.. .is a monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...Donald Smith is a facet of Craft v. Industrial unionism. Messrs. Smith & Smith (usually but not always concurring with Chairman Madden) have consistently ruled that in plants where unions have been customarily organized or conducted on an all-inclusive industrial basis, crafts may not chisel out skilled segments and bargain apart from the whole. As the principal sufferer from this literal application of the Wagner Act, A.F. of L. is doing all it can to halt the practice. By no means certain that it can defeat Donald Smith's confirmation, A.F. of L. has excellent precedent for bringing corrective...