Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Folgen!" From Godesberg this week the Führer returned unobtrusively to Berlin, got to work on a speech which he presently delivered to 15,000 Nazis jam-packing the Sport-Palast...
...first air raids may not be on Central London at all but on the traffic jams around it," warns Professor Haldane. "In Spain, at any rate, the German airmen seem to prefer to attack concentrated traffic, whether on wheel or on foot, rather than to bomb buildings, when they have the choice. ... In Barcelona one dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than...
Bruin center Tom Carey was a back last year, and this factor should weigh heavily in Harlow's favor. It he gets to thinking he is a back on the McLaughry offense today, it is likely to jam the works...
...sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with the sound waves they are generating. These waves, unable to get away from a source traveling just as fast, jam up around the propeller tips in clusters sometimes referred to as "compressible burbles," creating as much of a drag as if the propeller had suddenly been transformed into a twirling dumbbell. Since sound waves travel more slowly in thin air than at normal atmospheric pressure, propellers in the substratosphere have...
...barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place to a running accompaniment of strong talk and more or less continuous gunfire...