Word: humps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side were the peace-passionate President, Congress and State Department of the U. S., all eager to make these acts crimes faster than they could be performed. Congress got a hump on. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House was organized at least three days faster than usual. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into...
...Moscow, last week, thousands of hatless workers so jampacked the hump-backed surface of Red Square that dozens fainted in the congestion. For hours they listened to Soviet stump-thumpers whipping up enthusiasm for the plight of "brother workers" in Spain, then voted part of their monthly wages for a Spanish Government defense fund. At week's end it was announced that 12,000,000 roubles ($2,400,000; had been collected from this and other Bolshevik mass meetings, transferred through the Soviet State bank to the Spanish Government...
Already Pressagent Michelson has begun his 1936 work. Against such an able adversary, small, pompous Theodore A. ("Ted") Huntley. secretary to Pennsylvania's onetime Senator David A. Reed, whom the Republican National Committee hired last month to run its publicity, will have to hump himself as never before to make any sort of showing...
...handling coal, which is 90% of the Virginian's freight tonnage, the road has the most efficient equipment developed. Its steam locomotives are among the world's biggest, its electric locomotives on the 134 miles of electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest...
Where did you get your political information that Senator Robinson would have to doff his cutaway and hump himself to be re-elected in Arkansas in 1936 [TIME, July...