Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Professor Shaw could no longer choke down his laughter. Slapping his middle he burst out: "What a comic world!" Then related just how it all had happened...
Near Wenatchee, Wash., Walter Griffith's truck, loaded with watermelons, skidded from the road, burst into flames. Quick-witted Walter Griffith grabbed his watermelons, threw them against the truck with might & main. The 23rd watermelon put out the fire...
They said they have blasted down to actual contact with the Egypt's strong room wall. To burst it may be possible before winter storms set in. The splendid shilling (an ordinary English coin dated 1918) is the first "treasure," the first bit of precious metal brought up from the Egypt after more than a year of diving...
...life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid on. The Foreign Minister of China...
...exist, said the sardonic Voltaire, it would be necessary to invent one. With a rare burst of creative imagination, a God has been invented for the first play of the Theatre Guild's 14th season. Author of He is Alfred Savoir. He himself exists in the attractive mortal envelope of Tom Powers, not to be confused with Eugene Powers who is also among the comedy's cast as a learned professor...