Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a terrific bang, which did not so much alarm as it startled and amused the Empire, the new United Empire Party, founded less than a month ago (TIME, March 3), burst last week into its constituent atoms...
Some years ago Edgar Allen Poe, intrigued by a tinkling sound, burst forth in sundry verses of ecstatic onomatopoeia signifying his rapturous delight in "The Bells". Mr. Poe, an authority on bellish noises, expressed supreme content with all sorts of bells--bells that tintinabulated, bells that gushed voluminous euphony, and even brazen alarum bells that shrieked...
...flag, Mr. Hammill paid no heed to ground demonstrations. He brought his plane down for a three point landing. The useless right wheel dug into the ground, and the ship's tail flew up. She ground-looped around to the right, on her wing and her nose, then burst into flames. The chemical truck swung into action, extinguished the fire. The couple was helped out unhurt, shaken up, and grateful for Mr. Montgomery's forethought...
...Haven last week members of the college community and alumni listened skeptically to President James Rowland Angell's long promised remarks on the House Plan (TIME, Feb. 24). Suddenly the audience burst into loud cheering. President Angell had announced that Associate Professor Dudley French (Yale 1910) would not resign from the English faculty, as had been previously stated (TIME, Dec. 30), but would take charge of the first unit of the quadrangle system. some three or four years hence. Two situations which engendered dispute at Yale this year are: 1) the House Plan, and 2) the resignation of popular...
Dodging the few remaining ice cakes left by the recent burst of warm spring weather, 18 upperclass crews covered the stretch between Newell Boathouse and the upper end of the one half mile straight stretch on the Charles yesterday afternoon in the first outdoor practice of the 1930 season. The crews will abandon the three practice periods a week schedule for daily rowing as long as the river remains open...