Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior ballots have finally burst on an expectant Campus and true to form most of the old standbys have repeated, Biology, Professor Hall, the Princetonian, Phi Beta Kappa, and other notable Campus institutions. There is always, however, sufficient variety to cause interest, and not a few surprises...
...young physician, one Dr. David Gloyd, was boarding at the Kansas home of one George Moore. Attracted by Mr. Moore's daughter Carrie, then 19, Dr. Gloyd, taking her by surprise, grasped and kissed her. Thereupon Carrie burst into tears, put her hands over her eyes, cried out: "I am ruined! I am ruined!" Rising to the requirements of the situation, Dr. Gloyd became Carrie's husband. Shortly after, he developed into a confirmed alcoholic, went to a "drunkard's grave...
...large safes in the basement proved too much for the police. Soon workmen with safeblowing apparatus arrived. Pneumatic drills were featured in their technique, and all the next day a purring t-t-tat-tat-tat-t-t was heard in Moorgate street. Finally the safes were burst open, more trucks backed up, more papers were trundled away...
...would. . . . His power as President of the Reichsbank, backed by the possibility of Government-sponsored legislation, was not to be thwarted. Soon the banks announced "voluntarily" an arbitrary reduction of all loans to market operators of 25%, with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse was, of course, equally terrific...
...mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous) tie played with the Princetonian cohorts some week or more...