Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid a crash with a car full of cinematographers...
What was the interest in your announcement in the issue of July 20, Page 1, that Jervis, bodyguard of the President, fell into an elevator shaft and dropped five feet with a crash without the information that the President was following close behind him and was warned of the danger...
...crash in the Berlin stockmarket has been featured very little in the press, although U. S. investors who blithely bought German shares at recent exalted prices are ruefully aware...
Item: Mr. Joe Blevitch of the class of '66, while returning early Saturday morning from a G. A. R. celebration, came into accidental contact with the iron gate of James Smith Hall. Sergeant O'Malley of the Cambridge Mounted Police, suspecting an attempt to crash the gate, fired three shots at him and left him for dead...
...indescribable panic) for the simple reason that rooms above the ground, level are fairly complete anti-gas chambers, provided that no fires are lit to draw air into them. The destructive capacity of a gas shell or bomb is insignificant. It will be high explosives, which cause houses to crash, that will apparently supply the chief danger to the cities and towns in the next war. Moreover, to get an effective concentration of gas in cities behind the firing lines, an enormous concentration of aircraft, supplying a highly vulnerable target, would be necessary...