Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sake, stop playing with high explosives. There is a cyclone of sentiment for immediate independence being created. If it burst, it will spend all its fury in the Philippines. If you really want happiness and genuine freedom, retain your junior partnership in the United States and do not try to navigate the troublesome seas of international affairs without a pilot...
After a few warning twinges, the glossy blister of high prices in the New York stock market burst explosively at the prick of the rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
...Oregon game of January 1, 1920, which Horween saved by a superhuman effort, R. T. Fisher '12, retiring coach says: "During this march Arnold Horween appeared badly used up and just as we were preparing to send in a fresh man to take his place he suddenly burst through the center of the Oregon line and ran 25 yards before being downed. It was the most exciting play of the game...
...Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth. I killed--killed--Abraham --Lincoln--the--best--best...
...thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...