Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rocket choir' of Princeton, 'Rah! Rah! Rah! Ss!-boom-ah!' probably ranks next in point of interest. It sprang up as the result of athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking...
...Shooter Johnson returned their fire. Citizens talked of sending to the governor for a detachment of militia, agreed first to make one more effort. Enlisting 75 more courageous deputies, they stormed toward Mr. Johnson's death-spitting windows. Someone touched off an electric fuse-there was a splintering boom. Dynamite, laid in the night, had blown off Farmer Johnson's door. The first deputy inside fired shakily at the insane, grey figure crouching in an angle of the stairs. With a hole in his head, Mr. Johnson pitched forward. Taken to a hospital, he said he was sorry...
...with attention. Mrs. Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars...
With a dull boom the ball bounced back to Stanford's 14-yard line, and from here Alabama, outplayed all afternoon, launched the touchdown that tied the score...
...outburst of silk fever occurred in the 1830's. Daniel Webster bought 5,000 trees for his Massachusetts farm. Farm papers told their readers that five acres of mulberry trees would support a family sumptuously. Nine state legislatures established mulberry and silk-reeling bounties. As always before, the boom languished. The industry stayed where it had started 50 centuries before, in China, where "labor is almost as cheap today as when the first wild silkworms were brought down from the hills...