Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Beattie, local agent of the far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, was out riding. The blast lifted his horse from under him. Manager Beattie crawled on the ground, clung to groaning trees. A liquor warehouse burst. Bottles of whiskey rolled into the door of the nearby U. S. consulate. Consul G. Russel Taggart was stunned by a falling piece of roofing metal...
...than seven hours after the Belize blow, a second hurricane bore up from the southeast on San Juan, P. R. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had just left for the U. S. The wind lasted 45 min., killed two, knocked out communications for a day, slightly damaged the grapefruit crop, burst in the windows and thoroughly soaked "La Fortaleza," Governor Roosevelt's mansion...
...medal from Secretary Adams, a spasm of applause from 4,000 spectators. There was some confusion about the medal, for the name of Molla Bjursted Mallory, eight-time Woman's Champion, and of Mary K. Browne had unaccountably been left off the list. Richard Dudley Sears, in a loud burst of applause, shook hands four times, received his medal with patrician politeness. He made no great show of liking the ceremony but said he was glad he had come, against his doctor's advice, because "they only hold these things every 50 years and I may not be here...
Diagnosticians as well as surgeons doubtless will be vexed with Dr. Hoffman's blame. Appendicitis is not always easy to diagnose. The surgeon usually gets the case at the last minute, when the appendix is about to burst or has already burst and scattered its pus. It is almost always peritonitis which causes death...
...annual conference of the International Student Service, a goodwill organization which grew out of relief work done for students in Europe just after the War, were reticent for the first few days of the meetings last week at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Then, as often happens, they burst into hot excoriation of their own countrymen...