Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ducks, Publisher Warner got the idea of teaching the cheetah to retrieve. After two days the cheetah fetched dead or wounded ducks on land or in the water, delivered them instead of eating them. When hunting pheasant, the cheetah is less useful than a pointer. Instead of standing still, it runs after every bird, frequently catches one after it has flown by jumping in the air and knocking it down with...
Public reception of new models at the New York Automobile Show-a business pointer which important motor executives take so seriously that they seldom fail to attend in person-was unanimously conceded to have been the best in six years. Rising demand from the automobile industry lofted steel operations in less than a month from about 30% of capacity to 47%, a profitable basis for the heaviest of heavy industries...
...irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed the rules of civilized warfare, but admits his men were fond of ambushing Federal pickets, of suddenly displaying a flag of truce to get themselves out of a tight corner. Braxton West Pointer, who was Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send...
...into one another and his men swinging wildly at the white willow-root ball, he began to cheer. His own Captain Horovenko, playing No. 1 for the "Red" team after six weeks of teaching, was crowding Mr. Thayer, No. 1 for the "White" team, for individual honors. The West Pointer could hit but Captain Horovenko could ride. The All-Russian "Red" team beat its coach, 5 to 4. Commissar "Klim" congratulated his men hoarsely: "The horses were less efficient than the riders. It was a hard-fought, clean, friendly match...
...Senate floor; 2) because he felt the Undersecretary should be "one familiar with the lowly and despised occupation of farming." Said he: "What is needed for that job is a farmer who knows what overalls are for, not a man who knows only how to wield a pointer in front of a blackboard...