Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clouds burst, lightning played among the pine trees; at 2:45 one morning a bolt hit the powerhouse. In the President's room candles soon flickered...
...Future. Normally a Republican nomination in Pennsylvania is as good as an election. This time there is, however, the possibility that Pinchot will bolt the Republican ticket either to run as an independent or to join forces with the Democrats who nominated William B. Wilson (Secretary of Labor under the President of the same surname). In any event it will take an heroic effort if a Republican nominee is to be beaten in Pennsylvania...
...Bolt, Haan, Sterry, Bauman, Bowman, Muschenheim. In what business did they engage...
...bolt of the Socialists was, of course, caused by the fact that Premier Painlevé refused to sponsor wholeheartedly their darling project of a "capital levy." M. Painlevé straddled as widely as he could, and it is reported that he will propose a levy on income so "broad" that it amounts to practically the same thing as one on capital. But that would not suit the Socialists. Why then did not M. Painlevé yield completely and veer to the extreme Left, adding to his support the 100 Socialist votes? Answered the politicians: "He knew that...
...information conveyed by your column this morning that Harvard is about to be endowed with an "oorah" cheer, vitiating as was its effect on the matutinal appetite, did not--alas!--arrive entirely as a bolt from the blue.. To anticipate something of the kind as the inevitable result of a cheer-leading "competition," did not require the gift of second sight. Let me hasten to protest that I do not herein wish to imply any criticism of the gentlemen who, as victims of the said competition, have been drafted to their ridiculous duty. Their services need only have been...