Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haired Irish Tim of Buffalo, there had been a day in France when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
Died. Frank Gifford Drew, 56, chairman of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and director of nearly a dozen other companies; when his automobile hit a telephone pole and overturned near Toms River...
...stock began a sustained, sensational rise. Its low for the year, 117, was reached on Jan. 19. By Feb. 8, it had hit 149¼. Responding to the two brief periods of market weakness, it lost 20 points in the last week of February, won them back, then lost 10 points in the week ending June 16. Sharp and spectacular was its recovery. It soared...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
...tossed to Roosevelt. A second to balance himself, and Roosevelt shot a pass on a bullet-like trajectory to Smithers, wing-footed Maroon end. As Smithers, four yards from a touchdown, felt the pigskin against his chest, the lithe form of Codfish Cabot, the doughty little Massachusetts quarterback, hit him amidships, and down he went. Roosevelt crashed the line, but Tiny Timm, giant guard, blocked his way. Again Roosevelt drove, and this time over the line...