Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length & breadth, pointing out plants he had fired. When he was talked out, flabbergasted officials tallied up 125 fires, $1,000,000 losses...
...also to consider a general course in physical science to include the principles of physics to be soundly understood in themselves, and also as they are related to astronomy, chemistry, biology, and the like. This is a proposition that will make the little man tremble in his shoes, or burst into ridicule. But those of greater intellectual stature will realize that synthetic knowledge has today become of equal importance with primary information, and that the withdrawal to be laboratory and library stacks is as often as not a refuge from the necessity of making up one's mind on larger...
...liberals he became something more useful. In his quiet way he cemented the bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought to the Capitol, Bob La Follette burst into tears and would not go on the floor. In the Senate Chamber Norris bowed his head and covered his eyes with his hands, Borah openly wept...
...will redeem her immediately,' he said, and produced the bank notes before the proprietor. The proprietor called for the girl's mother. Girl and mother burst into tears. The foreigner was watching the touching scene for some time and then ordered 13 other girls in the house and all the other employes to assemble . . . and gave them 5 yen each...
Measured by the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages, the low point of the Depression was July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...