Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Group Theatre produced Odets' sixth play, Rocket to the Moon. In Odets' own phrase, it is a play about middle-class love. Its people, running true to form, are frustrated, mired; but this time Society is not the villain...
Tufts held the game scoreless in the first period. Howard Mendel turned the tide soon after the start of the second quarter with a rocket from the wing. Witkins placed the second goal, In the third quarter, a neatly executed pass by Edgar resulted in Page relaying the ball past Breen for Harvard's third goal...
...whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...Lopez objects to the high notes of "the rocket's red glare." Would he expect anyone to describe rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...