Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurdler Towns won the 100-yd. dash in 10 sec., the high jump at 6 ft., anchored a team that won the 880-yd. relay. His Troop F won the meet...
...through Leftist lines outside Santander when they read a purported order issued by General Piazzoni to Le Frecce Nere (Black Arrows): "As the Black Arrows were the first to reach Bilbao, so they will be the first to enter Santander. With proud heart and bayonets raised, be ready to dash to the glory that awaits...
...hall" -he is almost lost in the back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back...
Snarled an Alabama sheriff, "Why don't you get in there with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was the rouged face of a white female named Victoria Price, 22, whose insistent tale of a nine-Negro rape in an Alabama freight car in March 1931 had made the Scottsboro Case an enduring stink in the annals of Alabama law (TIME, April...
Next the Radical Alliance bestowed its blessings upon a C.I.O. strike, that of workers in the Loose-Wiles Biscuit plant in Lawrenceville, Pa., and last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance...