Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck the wheelhouse rail. After the volley the Coast Guard boat hailed: "What ship is that...
Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...
...explained King Mihai's former schoolmate, "he was always hitting us. And so we decided that King or no King we would hit him back. And so we hit him on the nose and then they stopped the school...
Equally hard hit by the high tariff is the new export trade which America has built up since the war. One can only wonder what new adaptation of the old Mercantile Theory is taken to justify a policy of excluding the goods of a large customer who can in no other way pay for what he buys...
...quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends to the belittlement of those gentler amenities, good talk and reading, has hit the American home just as acutely. If undergraduates are less in their rooms today, and consequently less accessible to the knowledge of one another and of books: if they are more in the company of girls, more addicted to dancing and visiting, thanks are largely due to the automobile...