Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marx's Fairbanks saloon. Marx, a Jew, started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...
...island in the Pacific which is smaller than California in area, and no less mountainous, lives a population over half the size of the U. S. people. These unfortunates-the Japanese-are like a rush-hour crowd in a subway car, the doors of which have jammed. Fortnight ago Japanese papers loudly warned that the East Indies ought to be an emergency exit; and that Western Powers had better help open the door. Last week Japan's arms implemented the warning...
...York Central, rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...crowds will roar as the great Harvard-Yale classic is fought out below them. The crowds will rush out to partake in mass celebration after the final whistle. But behind the scenes different and more somber contests will take place...
Five grim and nervous Sophomore managers will frantically rush about doing their last and their best as the "zero hour" approaches. In the midst of the general breaking of training in the locker room after the game, they will doggedly stick to their jobs, for now more than ever their work is the most important thing...