Word: crushings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draughts of knowledge at Professor Merriman's fount so many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British man called Wellington, whose family name was Wellesley, and a German man named Blucher, first recipient of the Iron Cross, were fortunate enough to crush a great French man named Napoleon on June 18, 1815. Napoleon, who once held a commission as second lieutenant of artillery, had put on a great show, but St. Helena was ahead...
...Barcelona spokesman cracked back that General Franco is sticking his neck out to the Mediterranean between Catalan and Valencian armies which will close in on his flanks and crush the Rightists. "Never in history has a general offered his enemy such an opportunity...
That Communist Dictator Stalin means to continue the Moscow trials & executions, which have been going on since 1928, was suggested last week by the closing summary of Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky. "Let your sentence, Comrade Judges, resound as a bell calling for new victories!" he cried. "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains...
...Langmuir, having studied ballistics formulae, showed that if the botfly flew at 800 m.p.h. the wind pressure against its head would be 8 Ib. per sq. in., "probably enough to crush the fly." The power needed to maintain such a velocity would be 370 watts or about one-half horsepower -which is, as Dr. Langmuir exclaims, "a good deal for a fly!" Also, the fuel requirement would be so high that the insect would have to consume more than its own weight of food every second...
...suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits...