Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball finally landed almost on the goal line, and then god and the Deacons got together. instead of bouncing into the end zone the ornery pigskin went off at right angles toward the sideline, going out on the one foot mark...
...annual salary of $30,000 (Forbes Morgan got $50,000), Director Sturges will take office next week, will commute from Washington to New Haven for the one course he intends to continue teaching. Not ambitious to become a Liquor Tsar, he presumably will attempt to sell the distillers on policing themselves. Said he: "I am undertaking the office...hoping that by cooperation with the public authorities we can eliminate all aspects of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages which may be offensive to important groups of our citizenship...
...tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched cheeks a mile away. Men who fought the blaze with foamite wondered whether the whole tank metropolis would go. But the wind was merciful. By next noon the last flicker was out. Total damage...
...English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...
...morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store the men of the sheriffs were dragging dead men out of their windows." Tom got away on his faithful horse, Silver. "Suddenly a million Indians rushed at him." He got away again. He got in an other fight, knocked his enemy down, asked "What's that guy's name," when "something like an ape was clutching at his throat. He was startled by a voice...