Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With luck, Author Wilkins thinks Kidd might have stayed on the right side of the law. But his luck was out. His crew, a hard lot, was mutinous, more than half piratical from the start. And when he did bump into a pirate he sometimes embarrassingly turned out to be an old friend. At that Kidd managed to capture several apparently legal prizes...
Flying one day from Washington to Cleveland, a Pennsylvania Airliner ran into a patch of bumpy air near Harper's Ferry, Va. On one bump the ship fell about 300 ft., pitching two of the passengers against the roof so violently that they had to be taken back to Washington at once and sent to a hospital. Last week these two-George P. Kimmel, Washington patent lawyer, and Homer J. Byrd, Illinois State Superintendent of Registration & Education-were in court demanding $200,000 damages from the airline.* They contended the pilot should have warned them to fasten their safety...
...think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were no Trotsky, or if Trotsky should be assassinated, the Ogpu would have to invent another Trotsky to serve purposes not wholly different from those served...
...transformations of this chameleon edifice, stood aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports shows in Boston last year and last fortnight...
...country dirt road and stone fence. S--shows me pictures of finished models on the walls. It takes months for just one. So struck by these that I grab my coat and ear muffs and to the University Museum to see the actual models. On the way out I bump into Pathe cameramen. The newsreel has learned of the Harvard Forest studios as soon...