Word: crushingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House by cleverly passing his troops around to "Stonewall" Jackson's aid. Again the Union forces advanced, now under Pope. The bold strategy of ordering Jackson around Pope's wing to descend on his rear, and the lucky swelling of the Rappahannock River, combined to crush the invaders...
...Senator objected to their marriage, so Frémont surveyed in Iowa before eloping with Jessie. Vexed though the Senator was, he forgave and made Frémont his willing tool to open up the vast West. The young couple were presented to President Tyler in "the greatest crush in the White House since President Jackson had exhibited Colonel Meacham's gigantic cheese...
...adjective of "harried" has come to be a banality, so often has it been applied to the Senior. In the crush of these for distinction, divisional examinations, tutorial conferences, and job hunting something has had to be sacrificed. The opening by Doctor G. H. Maynadier of the competition for Commencement speaking parts brings to mind one of those traditions which hectic times have forced into an undeserved subordination...
...once engaged Geologist Robert Thomas Hill of the University of California, onetime (1889-1904) member of the U. S. Geological Survey, to examine the terrestrial underpinning of Los Angeles and make an announcement "to the world." There was little doubt but what this report would mitigate, if not wholly crush, the Willis doctrine. In seismology, as in medicine, so many factors must be surmised that from the few known facts, paid experts may arrive honorably as often as willfully at different conclusions...
...Sometimes he committed petty crimes and begged the judge in court to send him up for 30 days in order that enforced abstinence might prepare him at least partially for his next encounter. Again and again he went drunk to the ring; and again and again just failed to crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train...