Word: rams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total gains of 440 yd. The defense cut Williams' rushes to 19 yd. Sophomores made all but one of Princeton's touchdowns, 45-to-0. A fiery little Duke team dealt Tennessee its first drubbing in 27 games, 10-to-2. Notre Dame's green battering-ram out-rammed Indiana...
...unpatriotic to refuse to unionize. Here is your union. Never mind about the dues now. Just join up!" And join up the miners did-150,000 in the first 30 days of NRA, 150,000 more since then. Here & there was last-ditch resistance by operators who tried to ram through company unions. But Leader Lewis had a long head start on them, with the result that he is now undisputed master of more than half a million working men. When NRA first began to negotiate a coal code, most operators who had thrown off the union yoke...
Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from...
...German naval base on the Flanders coast, whence he directed Zeppelin raids on London, submarine attacks on Dover; in Berlin. He was one of twelve German admirals whose extradition was sought by the Allied Powers for the much publicized "judicial murder" of Captain Charles Fryatt, executed for trying to ram a U-boat with his noncombatant vessel...
...Brien did in the motion picture. While some of the other players were not up to the standard set by the cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with the starkly worded dialogue landing in the audience's lap with the jolt of a steam ram. Which recalls the fact that "The Front Page" was not allowed to show in Boston under the regime of Censor Casey. Probably even now the Playhouse is the only place where it could run uncut and unmolested. I have an idea that, in the opinion of the city fathers, the souls...