Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most part Author Johnson confined himself to justifying NRA's creation by a temperate statement of orthodox Roosevelt economic theory, such as any sympathetic professor might have written. Only when he came to answering attacks on NRA price control features and monopolistic tendencies did the General burst into genuine Johnsonese. Excerpt...
...pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
Babe Ponsonby is named George for His Majesty, St. Lawrence for the mighty river and Neuflize for his late maternal French grandfather, an exceedingly rich Paris banker. For days Canadian papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction...
...Speech, as everyone knows, is written by the Premier. What followed was a burst of demagogery from the Throne- i. e. from hard-pressed Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is trying to escape the fate of Herbert Hoover by a lightning change from his accustomed conservatism to Roosevelt newdealism (TIME...
...December 23 the bubble burst. That description is almost literally true; the swelling surface which had given more and more light as it expanded, became too tenuous to give constant radiation, and the effect of the large surface disappeared. The hotter radiation from the deeper layers of the star began to pour through the still expanding fragments of the bubble, and a real explosion might be said to have occurred...