Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing I did was to condemn all the French planes. That is what caused all the trouble. The French tried to bump me off. I also supplanted some of the French aviators and that didn't sit very well...
Which was cause and which effect?the bump into the hill, the explosion, the fracture of the hull? A loss of a rudder? These questions remained unanswerable last week. Incendiary smoking by one of the party seemed, however, out of the question. Discovery of a control fin some distance away from the wreck in the woods seemed to point to what precipitated the final plunge. British and French flying experts hastened to the scene, to answer the multitude of whys, then asked Dr. Eckener to help...
...audience is ready, two bowls, containing the contestants, are placed on the table. If the gill covers of the fish bristle to form a ruff around its head when it spies the other, a fight seems assured. A fight is guaranteed if they charge at one another and bump their noses on the intervening glass...
...rowing circles took place last year when the University crew was swinging along the upper stretches of the Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather bad cut on his head. Bert...
...Stamford, Conn., Paul Eckstein, 20 months old, and Edward Eckstein, 3, were playing on the floor. "Bump!" cried Edward Eckstein. They gurgled, bumped their heads together. Five minutes later, Paul Eckstein grew drowsy. Several hours later he died of a fractured skull...