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Word: boomingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alkali was a boom town, law & order had not yet descended on it. The sheriff was in cahoots with the unruly cowmen, and the decent shopkeeping and professional element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fusilier* | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...following year in the Livonia and lost four out of seven match races. Later came the Earl of Dunraven in 1893. He challenged and lost with Valkyrie II. Two years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver Iselin's Defender. In that unfortunate race Valkyrie's boom struck Defender's upper rigging at the start and although the committee ruled it no contest, Valkyrie finished, won, claimed the victory. Lord Dunraven went home in a huff, accused Defender of being secretly overballasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport (Cont.) | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Gently Enterprise's clean white nose splashed at the water. Skipper Vanderbilt looked her over: below, where some of the rigging comes down through the hollow metal mast; on deck, where many new mechanical gadgets are?the "sliding-foot" boom, the instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport (Cont.) | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...always has the industry enjoyed stability. When Benjamin Franklin advocated lightning rods in 1747 people thought the whole idea was stupid, sacrilegious. But finally there came a boom. The whole country became lightning-rod-minded. In 1885 a body of scientific men studied the Washington Monument, already hit a few times, and recommended conductors for it. Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs. Gradually people became aware of the fact that lightning was striking even where the so-called rods were. The rods were thereupon denounced as expensive folly. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lightning Rods | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Chief Engineer of Boulder Dam is Raymond F. Walter of the Reclamation Service. Born in Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Boulder Dam Start | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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