Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gluttons of Privilege." "It is terribly dangerous to let any one group get too much power in the Government," he cried. He meant the "Wall St. reactionaries" who were in power in the '20s and whose policies, he said, had ended in the 1929 crash and subsequent disaster for the farmers...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
...baseball; but by 1935 he was on his way back via the minor leagues. In 1940, a changed Billy became manager of the Cards for the second time. This time he treated his ballplayers with almost fatherly solicitude (his own son was later killed in a B-29 crash), kept pace with their problems on & off the field. Under Southworth, the Cards won three consecutive pennants, two World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place...
Until World War I, Pathé dominated the world movie market. Then the Pathé influence began a fadeout. But Charles Pathé got about $2,500,000 for the syndicate when he cannily sold out his share just before the 1929 crash...
Berliners last week found a strange symbol of their city and of Europe. In Prinz Handjery Strasse stands a chestnut tree. Six weeks ago, a U.S. plane flying in Operation Vittles crashed against it, killing two U.S. flyers. The flames of the crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...