Word: onto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe it will head off Gasque." With...
...Strapped onto a massive chair in a room gradually filling with gas fumes, a husky, 20-year-old Negro in white trunks coughed, clenched his fists, expanded his chest and fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient...
...topsy-turvy radio discussion yesterday afternoon Crimson debaters defended the "Equal Rights for Women" amendment against the attacks of a Wellesley team that suggested that passage of the amendment might mean that Harvard college "might have to admit women onto its sacred premises...
...inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale...
...swung onto the table beside Meade and dangled her bare legs...