Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After the first half of the lecture, Mallinckrodt MB9 became a virtual battle-field with every type of powder from Roger Bacon's original sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal formula to the present high-explosive, gun-cotton, in prominent display and usage...
Such a movie, thought Preacher Jardine, required a new type of heroine to play the good girl - a Miss Spiritual America. Said he: "First there was the It Girl, then the Glamor Girl, then the Oomph Girl, and now the Spiritual Girl." Preacher Jardine set out to find the spiritual girl...
These occurrences are not symptomatic of the type of leadership necessary to America in these tense months. We are glad to have the Mayor on the campus, and hope that during his brief stay here he may be able to answer the questions which arise in our minds regarding the direction he is taking. Executive Committee, Harvard Student, Union...
...Little Flower," or "The Roaring Bull of the Pampas" as he was also known, had no need of a publicity agent. He was the type of "happy thyroid" who always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps...
...size has at least one independent newspaper, working through its editorial policy for the good of the community it serves. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which at long last got the goods on the Long machine in Louisiana, is only an outstanding example among many others of the same type. This is in sharp contrast to the situation in the North, where many large cities harbor only a couple of chain newspapers, with little or no local responsibility. In the North the editorial page is a waning influence, but in the South it is alive and kicking...