Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing so grates on the ear of a sensitive Chinese as the epithet "Chinaman." Last week that word rang through the Supreme Court of the United States of Mexico as two swarthy Mexicans stoutly protested that in killing one of the Chinese people they had not committed murder...
...prizefight in Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Teddy Yarosz last week used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges thought Yarosz's margin earlier in the bout entitled him to the championship...
Welcome. Three days before ALL rang in New Deal ears, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace wrote in the New York Times: "We badly need a new alignment: conservatives versus liberals; those who yearn for a return of the dead past versus those who feel that human intelligence can lead us to a far more general abundance and peace between warring groups. With the old crowd whimpering the same old incantations, the faster the show-down comes and the more definite the division between the Old Dealers and the New Dealers of both present parties, the better...
...Raised cheer on cheer for that popular John Bull, bottle-nosed Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as he championed the Government's big Air Force program in homely phrases against a Labor motion of censure and let fall a sentence which rang round the world. "Since the day of the air the old frontiers are gone," cried Orator Baldwin, "and when you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the white cliffs of Dover, but you think of the Rhine. That is where, today, our frontier lies...
Again & again the warning bell rang. Again & again the lightning produced remarkable effects on objects exposed in its brief path...