Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolt...
...Irvington, N. J., a bolt of lightning neatly split a bed on which lay William Gaylor, 19, and Jack Fitzsimmons, 6, burned a pair of bedroom slippers, took a closet door off its hinges, slipped into the bathroom and tore off all the fixtures, rambled around the kitchen and broke all the dishes, dropped into the basement, smashed the electric metre, grounded...
...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
...only bolt on the horizon at the present time is Captain Dubiel's ankle injury, which he incurred while pole-vaulting behind the Stadium. He appeared at practice today on crutches, but his ankle should heal quickly and he is expected to be ready to go after the recess...
...William Edgar Borah was one of the few liberals of the Republican Party who did not abandon the sinking political ship of William Howard Taft and bolt the party. Last month Senator Borah frightened conservative Republicans of Taft's native State by announcing that he was going to run in Ohio primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan...