Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Novelist (Lanny Budd) Sin clair be willing to stand in line all day to see a hit show...
...padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships...
Though Eliot seemed to be the stronger team, it took a break to set up the only touchdown. The Berkeley safety man took a second quarter Harvard kick on his own two yard line, was hit hard on the six, fumbled and Eliot recovered...
...months of this year, Rexall reported a loss of $1,167,125. For the full year, Dart estimated last week, the loss would be cut, though it would still be around $500,000. Said Dart: "We knew that trouble was coming-but we didn't realize it would hit us so fast...