Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body was found strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
None would allow himself to survive the disgrace of defeat in the coming action. . . . When battle came, the Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with...
...audience wonders why the wife of "The Governor of the State" pleads for a pardon on the grounds that the hero is "more sinned against than sinning." Act II: Cut back to the murder in a sprightly milieu of harlots and bootleggers like that in a prior hit, Broadway* (TIME, Sept. 27). Act III: So the bootlegger murdered by the hero was his f-th-r . . . and the Governor's wife was his m-th-r. . . . Shissh, Shussh! Off with the noose. A neatly meshed plot running smoothly with hokum in all the grease cups...
...fairly even until late in the final period, when Brine ran 25 yards to his own 15-yard line. On the next play Whiting dropped back to throw a pass, but it was blocked, and Adams recovered it to make his winning run. Heard's try for goal hit the upright...
...preserved; an education which serves to shorten the period of youth is only a blight. Youth should not be cut off; it should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...