Word: crushings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Cleveland's Museum of Natural History came Director Henry L. Madison to have a look. He said: "After consulting reptile texts I am convinced it is a Python molurus."† He also said the creature was big and strong enough to crush a horse. No one could decide how a Python molurus happened to be in Lake Erie...
...sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
...never found in raids abroad. These facts, the U.S. delegation will argue at Geneva, suggest that U. S. methods of supervising and limiting the manufacture of narcotics are efficient, should be generally adopted. As everyone knows, neither the U. S. nor any other nation has ever been able to crush smuggling of narcotics once they have been manufactured...
...months." Contracts have been secured, according to this despatch, by enterprising German and Japanese firms to supply the Canton Government with $1,000,000 worth of munitions. Up to last week President Chiang had talked much at Nanking of sending soldiers by land and warships by sea to crush the "Cantonese rebels" but he had done little. The new Canton Government was getting a good start, may yet have to be recognized by the Washington "friend"' of venerable Tang...
...looks up arguments, arranges them in outline form, and reels them off in more or less impassioned fashion is engaged in exposition; he is not really debating. For the essence of debating is give and take. The speakers should bring up a point, toss it back and forth, crush it between two fires, restore it to life, balance it against another factor, and present it to their audience in fresh relationships. To facilitate this contact each speaker formerly spoke twice. Now rarely more than one speaker to a side speaks for the second time, and the non-memorized part...