Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hours later they came away feeling as if they had been through a small Alabama "nawther." It had been a tough struggle even to get their questions asked. With scarcely a break in her marathon monologue, Tallulah had danced the Charleston for them, played piano, told jokes, done imitations and a few ballet turns, tossed off some mint juleps, fed them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl...
...terms included a 13? boost to $1.88 an hour (it was $1.25 in 1945), and 19½? to $2.82 an hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
...find the sunken hull. Other wreckage was found miles away. Mooncussers, scrabbling among the jetsam, found a piece of cabin from the Pentagoet, another steamer lost without trace. Had the ships rammed each other? Or had the Portland hit the bar? Or had she clawed off shore only to break up under the terrible pounding...
More Than a Soldier. After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang, leading the Kuomintang army, resolved to break out of the Canton pocket and overthrow the government at Peking. The Nationalist revolution rolled north, defeating one warlord after another. In the Northern Expedition, one of the great military exploits of the century, Chiang showed himself much more than a soldier. Skillfully, he played one warlord off against another. He won the confidence of the commercial class, traditionally distrustful of soldiers; the bankers backed Chiang-as the stabilizing force in China. In July 1928, Chiang triumphantly entered Peking...
Sophomore riders copped the runner up spot by placing first in the remaining two activities. Gloria Rosenbaum '51 took the intermediate horsemanship, while in a "break-the-ballon" game, Charlottes Coe '51 kept the balloon tied to her waist and intact the longest...