Word: hit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations to speak out boldly on current issues. The Crimson insists on viewing the curtailment of academic freedom at Chicago, Ohie, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell, not to hit nearer home, as isolated instances, but one does not have to be gifted with second sight to see these isolated cases of the curtailment of academic freedom as part of a movement which did not begin and will not end at our colleges and universities...
...Lion hoopmen got off to a late practice start and probably will not hit their stride until well after the Christmas holidays. As holdovers from the 1939 five which finished second only to Dartmouth in the final standings, Coach Paul Mooney has little Albie Myers and Jack Naylor, regulars, and John Gilligan, a reserve who saw plenty of action...
Swingin' the Dream (by Gilbert Seldes & Erik Charell; produced by Erik Charell in association with Jean Rodney). With Shakespeare a hit last season in musicomedy (The Boys from Syracuse) and The Mikado a hit in swing, it was dollars to doughnuts that Broadway would not rest until it had swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting...
...been feuding with his little boss, Roy Howard, president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. It all started when Editor Howard turned against the New Deal, leaving Broun to go his leftish way alone. The World-Telegram began to cut, edit and omit Broun columns. Broun hit back at Roy Howard in his own paper, wrote an indignant piece about him for The New Republic...
...were $130,108,000 (up 30% from 1938) on 19,184,000 tons of freight (22% over 1938). Last week American Trucking Associations, Inc. turned loose even more striking figures. Based on returns from 193 firms, it reported that in October, for the third successive month, highway motor trucking hit a new all-time peak. October traffic was up 5.4% from September, 33.4% over 1938, 23.2% over 1937, 51.3% above the 1936 monthly average...