Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both these increases hit U. S. shippers. No protest was envisaged in Washington as the increases are general and apply to all nations...
Good worry banishers are these: Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Chauve-Souris, Good News...
...first important discoveries concerned the electrical effect of lightning on the earth. The earth is, of course, a great sphere, and carries an enormous charge of negative electricity. About 100 strokes of lightning hit the entire earth every second. Professor Wilson measured their power...
...march, prepare to practice in Rome what they have preached in London. The arch-fanatic is Richard Bird, three years ago imported from England to play The Babe in Havoc. Later he supplied a brilliant Poet MarChbanks in Shaw's Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty...
...understand how Petronius acquired so great a reputation for unblushing realism. If the reader is persuaded that the affection of Enclopius and Ascyltos for Giton is a purely platonic one and such as is on more than proper between master and servant, he is missing as tasty a hit of aesthetic yohimbin as there is to be found this side of a celebrated international museum in Paris. And if he is missing it he can hardly be blamed for wondering why he ever purchased such dull stuff at a fancy price...