Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madrid had held out for two and a half years. But Madrid lies on a plain and behind a deep-cut river bed. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup. Furthermore, when the Rebels tried to take Madrid in 1936 they were far inferior in numbers and not much better off in material than the defenders. And the defenders of Madrid were spirited militia, men like the "iron" regiment which snatched up its arms from the dead. The Republican Army that was forced back on Barcelona had been outnumbered and smashed for five weeks by the greatest concentration of war material...
...take the fortress of Montjuich. which lies on a promontory that commands Barcelona from the sea side, the city had small chance of holding out. Madrid has held out for two and a half years. But Madrid stands like a fort on a plain. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup...
...With the governments of the major tea-growing nations (except China and Japan) putting up $1,000,000 annually for promotional activities handled by a Tea Bureau, U. S. imports were boosted back to 95,000,000 Ibs. in 1937-about four-tenths of a cup a day per person...
...coffee drinking a big boost, that high-pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...
Thus ran sport-page headlines last April when Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, in his first year as manager of a hockey team, flew his limp-winged Chicago Black Hawks to a Stanley Cup victory. Last week, on the third day of 1939, the Miracle Man of 1938 was given the bum's rush...