Word: clutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitting in the clutch by Lupe Lupien, Jack Cunningham and Don Prouty enabled the Freshman baseball team to squeeze out a 9-8 victory over the Holy Cross Freshman yesterday in their sixteenth straight win of the season...
Keynoting at Maine's Republican State Convention last month, the big, rugged, slow-spoken Oregon Senator declared:' "The most rapid improvement [in business] came after the Supreme Court invalidated the National Recovery Act and removed the governmental clutch from the throat of American business. ... In its effort to meet the agricultural problem, the New Deal has failed. . . . Needless, spendthrift addition to this crushing [national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt...
...work be completed and new victories will be added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared with laughter at secret service men, stumbling through the mud, breathlessly trying to keep up with...
...Because of the patented Daimler "fluid flywheel," a device which eliminates the clutch and gives a softness of action which hard British sportsmen describe as "all right for an elderly couple out shopping...
...Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school. Likeliest song hit: "About a Quarter to Nine...