Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Telephone Co. declared war on "Hello." Said the company in a burst of confusion-making advice: "Think of the time that would be saved if all telephones were answered: 'Mr. Smith...
...Class Day managed to survive the low ebb of 1873, and burst out sporadically through the years to startle more than once the good grey Commencement atmosphere. For a white, during the Twenties, confetti-throwing was sanctioned, but this vague reminder of former clashes at the Tree passed away in the paper shortage of the late...
Texans are that way about quarter-horses, a cow-pony type bred for a short, dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred...
...Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Barbary Coast when there was at least one good murder story every week. After one man was kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped Jack London, reporting for the rival Examiner, by fishing the victim's severed head out of San Francisco Bay. He was arrested for removing evidence, but the photographed head made Page...
Last week, newspaper readers learned that Father Feeney's passion for overdoing things had landed him in ecclesiastical hot water. First, he burst into print with an impassioned defense of the three Boston College laymen teachers who had been fired for teaching doctrine "contrary to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church" and for accusing their Jesuit superiors of heresy (TIME, April 25). Their uncompromising stand that there was no possibility of salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church, wrote Feeney, was the true doctrine - whatever the Baltimore Catechism or his fellow Jesuits might...