Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both brothers lost their lives in the summer of 1935 in a heroic attempt to rescue their father who had been washed overboard from their ketch, "Hamrah," while 600 miles off the Atlantic Coast...
...diminish, the fears of the doubting Thomases. Rivals like M.I.T. and the Coast Guard failed to provide the kind of opposition the team needed, and with Virginia the only opponent worth its salt, the inadequacy of the rest of the schedule more than justifies throwing the whole intercollegiate show overboard. And although the action of the A.A. does not appear to have been influenced by the Yale flare-up last winter, undoubtedly the final damning evidence in the minds of many is the fact that boxing has proved itself the one sport which cannot be conducted in a spirit...
Inflation or Alignment? That the U. S. Treasury meant business was shown when the Soviet State Bank immediately, upon the opening of international exchange in Wall Street, after M. Auriol's statement last week, dumped overboard $5,000,000 in sterling pounds with orders to sell them for whatever they would bring in dollars. Secretary Morgenthau, alert at his desk in Washington, instantly used the $2,000,000,000 U. S. stabilization fund to buy the British money offered by the Bolsheviks. He then angrily exploded to Washington correspondents whom he hastily summoned, asking them to flash news...
...yipped, "Hurrah for Roosevelt.") Beyond the town the road was lined with more cheering people. Alf Landon wriggled up to perch on the back of the tonneau, wave his straw hat and shout back while Mrs. Scranton clutched his coattails for fear that she might lose her favorite candidate overboard...
...Spanish warship that no longer deserves the name has halted a German steamer on the high seas. . . ." echoed Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "This ship was under the orders of mutineers who at the beginning of the Spanish civil war murdered their officers and threw them overboard. Therefore it is not only a breach of international law but worse that has happened...