Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor that a bolt of lightning had struck President Lowell's house at 17 Quincy Street yesterday afternoon could only be confirmed by the absence of a number of bricks from the top of the chimney. Servants in President Lowell's home, asked if more serious damage had been done to the interior did not deny the rumor. Eye-witnesses report that the bricks were strewn over the roof by the power of the bolt...
...with anger): Where did you get that? (Snatching the paper.) Do you realize this is a confidential document-a matter between doctor and patient? What right have you to bring this into a public court?* Prosecutor: I'm asking questions, not answering them. Is that your handwriting? Witness (bolt upright with indignation) : I refuse to say whether...
...aggressive opportunism of Adolf Hitler, will the rest of the world take its eyes from the German political horizon. Although the other nations whose fortunes are so closely bound up with the rise or fall of the German Republic will assure themselves that Hitler "has shot his bolt," conviction will only come with an unassailable Hindenburg victory...
...humble citizens for restraining trade but the defense hardly winced for this suit is civil, not criminal. Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting. Besides sugar, Mr. Fly has been after the Asphalt Shingle and Roofing industry. Before that he broke up a combination of rivet, nut & bolt makers. Mr. Rice won his anti-trust spurs against a chicken combine...
Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the news of Hannes Schnieder and his great Ski School at Arlberg. Here was somebody who had dared to throw tradition to the winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there...