Word: probed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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From the vantage point of his own easy chair the editor makes a commendable attempt to probe into the psychology of vacationing and vacationers. Although successful in spots his contribution as a whole lacks cohesion and finish
...from feeling personally abused, the Levands last week were making fine capital of Mr. Legge's remark. They printed all dispatches mentioning their part in the controversy. They said that Chairman Legge had "told Kansas to go to hell." Their seven-column headlines shrieked: CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF LEGGE IS DEMANDED. The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy...
Each year the calloused, potato-masher snouts of pigs probe the earth of southern France, bring up $15,000,000 worth of truffles for the omelets, canapes, sauces, poultry dressings of world gourmets. No ordinary packing house pigs are these animals. They are usually as well trained, as highly esteemed as good quail dogs or fox hounds...
...snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled- brown, black, buff, grey-protective coloration for thickety ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near the top of its head. Found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it is migratory, a fly-by-night beneath Spring and Autumn moons. Sportsmen...
...prompt and bitter with his denunciation of Mr. Insull's "disgraceful attitude." Other Senators (Dill, Wheeler) sarcastically thanked Mr. Insull for performing a "public service." Washington waited to see what ef fect the catchy phrase "three mills . . . six cents" might have on the Senatorial inquisition, the great Power Probe, long-sought by the greatest inquisitor of them all, Senator Walsh of Montana. The investigation, started by a Walsh resolution in 1926, into the propagandizing activities and financial structure of public utilities, was transferred to the Federal Trade Commission, where it still progresses quietly, obscurely. Another investigation, by Senator Couzens...