Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt took his guests, including Mayor LaGuardia of New York City and Representative Caroline O'Day of New York, to see how his "dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
...toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake. The engineer and his fireman, scalded and dead, were lying three miles back, along the Selma grade...
...tremendous sensation whistling over the salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record...
...backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times a week (two twilight games and one on Sunday) for a little extra revenue (usually $2 to $5 a game). They are content to job along as sandlotters, but the goal of the up & coming schoolboy is to be seen by big-league scouts-who picked up 156 semi-pros last year...
...This summer I spent in the Common on a variety of benches. Not long ago I had four walls and a bed and some books, but I was finally driven out along with the rest...