Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Believing, no doubt, the truth of the theory that at the theatre one never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
...down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from the mountain two miles away...
...wish to be an example for the army. I die tranquilly, with the knowledge that I did what I believed to be my duty, but I counsel all not to follow my course. Now boys, shoot here"−he held his hand over his heart−"don't hit my face...
...laundry owners announced 10% increase of family business in 1928, predicted a billion dollar laundry industry in 1930. Thirty chain store systems showed February 1929 sales increasing 24% over February 1928. Cigaret output last month was half a billion greater than for last February. Copper hit a new high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production...
...long and hard... A chief we knew insisted on having a motorcycle. The boy who was to run it for him knew how to start it, but little about how to guide or stop or care for it. They started off anad before they had run a hundred yards hit a tree, wrecking the machine beyond repair. When regrets were expressed he replied that it did not matter, since now everyone knew that he had had a motorcycle which would...