Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Germany's prince of peace was dashing in his supercharged Mercedes across snow-covered Bavaria when he overtook two humble hikers. "Get in!" invited the Chancellor...
...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
...best lesson that California has ever given the country." It is worth looking into when the governor of America's most self-conscious state commends rather than apologizes for the ferocious lynching which overtook the murderers of Brooke Hart. Of course, the case was unusual in that it involved no race or class prejudice; it is also to be remembered that the discovery of Hart's body corroborated the confession of the two prisoners. But in making his statement Governor Rolph showed his understanding of one significant fact. The lynching was not simply an act of vengeance...
...Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. . . . He never fought a battle that he did not win, nor besieged a fortress that he did not take. . . . He quitted war invincible: and no sooner was his guiding hand withdrawn than disaster overtook the armies he had led. Successive generations have not ceased to name him with...
...were anybody, you wouldn't bother to be here; if you were somebody, you wouldn't be here." This unspoken awareness partially ended a make-shift interview with Harland Dixon, playing in "Alice on Broadway" at the Uptown. Irrelevant recollections of G.B.S., "A.E.", and P. G. Wodehouse overtook the CRIMSON reporter, and for a number of reason she offered the purely hypocritical question as to what he might print...