Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly have caused more rumpus if they had chosen Yale's President Angell as coach and three ditchdiggers as assistants. "Ducky" Pond, like his predecessors, is a Yale graduate (1925). He has no experience as a varsity coach. The New York alumni of Yale, who had waged a furious fight to end Yale's policy of graduate coaches and demanded a proven game-winner from outside, felt they had been brazenly flouted. On the other hand, they fumed, the situation remained chaotic because the assistants were outsiders Neale & Myers of West Virginia, Williamson of Michigan. While alumni raged...
...theatre, the one of a heavy-handed adagio dance in which pretty little Lilian Harvey is tossed about like a beanbag by chorus boys. Good sequence: Suzanne's night mare, when she is dozing in her theatre dressing room, of her trial for murder by a court of furious, scornful puppets...
Star Wind. Dr. Otto Struve, director of Yerkes Observatory, told of discerning by spectroscopic observation what seemed to be furious hurricanes in the atmosphere of some stars. On one hitherto inconspicuous star the wind seemed to be blowing at the rate of 144,000 m.p.h. Dr. Struve added that, despite the surface turbulence visible in hydrogen photographs, the sun's atmosphere is practically windless...
...slime and hold against Stanford's inexhaustible reserves. Columbia not only held, but turned Stanford back from the 1-yd. line where Halfback Ed Brominski scooped up a Stanford fumble. In the last few minutes the rain again helped Columbia. Stanford tried to catch up with a furious forward-passing attack but could not handle the slick ball...
...before the House proposals for furnishing the necessary financial facilities for completion of the new Cunard liner" -scheduled to exceed the French liner Normandie as "largest and fastest liner in the world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle the British taxpayer with the national debt of bankrupt Newfoundland (TIME, Dec. 18), the Laborite-Liberal Opposition were helpless to oppose the Government's Conservative steamroller but finally grew...