Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that in a few unfortunate people the rousing of amorous passion is accompanied by overpowering excretory stimuli...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...
...Pacific States' total assets had been built up to $103,000,000. Then came the mortgage crash and the company's management became "a rescue and rehabilitation operation." When Commissioner Evans jumped in last fortnight this "rescue operation" had cut Pacific States' outstanding investment certificates from...
...Prompted by a letter to Tsar Will Hays from U. S. Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith, Producer Sam Goldwyn announced that he had canceled plans to make Thirteen Go Flying, based on last January's crash of the British transport plane, Cavalier...
Last week, still fecund at 87, this corporate oldster proudly brought forth an offspring: a new car, the Studebaker Champion, frankly designed to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth in the low-price field. Other makers have tried for ten years to crash this field without success, and Studebaker itself has had two previous cracks at it with the Erskine and the Rockne...