Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas considered the exploit of 26-year-old Corinne Maddox...
Died. Dr. James A. Naismith, 78, lifelong physical education instructor, who invented (for others to exploit) the game of basketball; of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Lawrence, Kans...
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill's preliminary report on the disaster was remarkable for its similarity to the jubilant account presently published by Germany. Mr. Churchill explained that, by "a remarkable exploit of professional skill and daring," the U-boat got through net and mine barriers and "fired a salvo of torpedoes at Royal Oak, of which only one hit the bow. This muffled explosion was, at the time, attributed [by Royal Oak's officers] to internal causes, and what is called the inflammable store, where the kerosene and other such materials are kept, was flooded...
...agree, that great glory from thence would ensue, And 'tis worthy alone of Alexander or you. After such an exploit there's no more to be done...
...effort to give Goethe's masterpiece the least shred of dignity or meaning. With a leering eye on the box office, it resurrected the Urfaust, that youthful first draft which Goethe himself threw into the wastebasket, and made it the basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which might well have been...