Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Wes Fesler was the victim of a practical joke by the stork when that obstetrical bird, in the guise of a Western Union messenger, brought him another little one between the halves. The mentor blushed prettily, but was seen to give an audible gasp of relief when closer inspection showed that 'twas but a doll...
...Boston stockholders on their original investment. But in 1907, when copper enjoyed one of its booms, the Michigan Copper Country was already on the down grade. Again during the War all the mines started up full blast. In 1929, as a last triumphant gasp, C. & H. made 90,000,000 lb. of copper. The rest is drabness. The 100,000,000 tons of ore remaining among the lava flows probably average no more than 1% copper. To the West are bigger companies with richer ores. And Canada, Chile and South Africa, with huge 3% and 4% ore-bodies close...
Since the object of the Nazis had been to make Dr. Anton Rintelen, "King Anton" of Nazi Styria, their Chancellor, this was as much as to say that Chancellor Dollfuss had yielded at his last gasp to the Nazi solution...
...life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table. It was the end. . . . Leucemia. Bound Brook, N. J.-Mrs. Santo Pinto, 48, mother of eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.-Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today...
...line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...