Word: chug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...
...This prosperous little Baltic state flanks the sea approach to Leningrad, where the Red Navy is frozen up tight at least three months of each year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile" to Russia. These attacks redoubled in fury last week as Soviet stations screamed that the pint...
...dingy, impertinent, little trains chug in every few minutes and, before they have even skated to a halt, begin to spew forth a few score commuters who flash past him on staccato high heels or solemn, rubber-heeled oxfords. Cogs in the Hub's vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles...
...militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags of the Alcázar, pressed the triggers and started a chug-chug of bullets most of which seemed to go low and catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying...
...first flight 30 years ago last month at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had a four-winged flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac River. With a mighty chug-chugging the contraption reared up, flopped into the water. Several years later the Dragon Fly was patched up and flown. The Smithsonian secured it for exhibit, labeled it "... The First Machine Capable of Flight Carrying a Man." Enraged, the Wright Brothers refused to give their first machine to the Smithsonian...