Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
...since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains...
Massillon, The Labor Board's hearings had not reached the bolt & missile episodes by last week but it had heard a lot about shooting in Massillon, Ohio (TIME, July 19). There early last month three men were fatally shot in a midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such...
...long with a potential of 380 volts, more than triple the common U. S. house current. Electric eels have produced up to 500 volts. Local Indians long ago recognized the nature of the eel's shocking power, naming the creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric. Two years ago Christopher Coates, the New York Aquarium's inquisitive tropical fishman, slipped an electric eel into a hard-rubber trough with metallic...
Yesterday's ruling of the Faculty smacks strongly of an opening move against the Faculty's unofficial colleagues, the tutoring schools. It gives no sign, to be sure, of active hositility, and may be only an isolated bolt. At least it has the merit of having been thrown in the right direction...