Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. There was a vicious punch in the storm's great white fist when it struck New York State. At Lake Placid the thermometer slumped to -12°, freezing out the hardy contestants in the North American bobsled races. In Manhattan, 9.2 in. of snow fell. In the metropolitan area 500,000 commuters could not get to work. The Stock Exchange opened an hour late. Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city...
...place when its flashy sextet whipped an eager Harvard team by a score of 3-1 before 8000 wild fans in the Boston Garden last Saturday night. But it the same time it revealed that although the Bulldog may attack savagely it intervals, the Crimson outfit notwithstanding has the punch to tame him once it gets together...
...courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen, as Mr. Punch had it, the integrity of their own souls...
There was a pawing Suffolk Punch stallion in gold-plated bronze. Its eyes were of ivory and onyx and lapis lazuli bows tied its braided mane. Baroque in muscle and violence, it was Sudbourne Premier, Britain's famed champion (1921-24). There was Haseltine's first champion job, King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford...
...sell well in Brownsville, Tex. Joyously last week Herr and Frau Karthausen and child were hurrying back to the Fatherland on tickets sent them by gentle Adolf. Of all forms of publicity for Nazidom the dispatch of such "Hitler tickets" was proving the most effective. Proud as Punch was tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor's closest friend, who staged the return from Reading, Pa. of stranded Ignatz Westenkirchner & family (TIME...