Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflected, there might be nothing left of party, or even of national, spirit among men. Even supposing impartial history could be made readable, the stunting effect of philosophical detachment upon young people's emotional equipment would be fearful to contemplate. They might never have the slightest desire to rush out to war for the motherland. They might reason so broadly about government that fine old political issues would become meaningless and forgotten, and states would perhaps fall into the hands of dreadfully efficient automatons like the ones Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wells put in their books, with no axes...
...July 25. At Rochester, N. Y., 13,269 employes of the Eastman Kodak Co., received $2,786,165 in one broad bonus-more than $200 each. At Luling, a small oil town of south central Texas, on an upper fork of the Guadalupe river, there was a wild rush to buy new automobiles. The United North & South Oil Co. of the locality had just been sold for $12,100,000, of which its Promoter Edgar B. Davis was giving away in bonuses $2,000,000. Some individuals received as much as $200,000 each...
...long ago, in a shanty on the Blue Bird range, Montana, there lived an ancient, Billy Martin, with a tobacco-stained beard, drawing out his days as caretaker of a disused copper mine. He was full of stories about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
Blue 1929 Starts With Rush...
...Leslie H. Simons, Princeton, Measurers. Throwing the Discus: Walter Tufts, Harvard, Judge; J. E. Hickley, Brown, Measurer. Putting, the 16 Ib. Shot: E. L. Hopkins, B. A. A., Judge; J. R. Truesdale, Princeton, and J. B. Mulford, Pennsylvania, Measurers. High Jump: Wesley Aler, Yale, Judge; Barrett Smith, Cornell, and Rush M. Hoag, Michigan, Measurers. Throwing the Hammer; F. X. McGrath, B. A. A., Judge; H. F. Barker, Princeton, and N. Shennan, Dartmouth, Measurers. Broad Jump: Ralph Gamble, Princeton, Judge; C. D. Wadsworth, Williams, and A. C. Kraenzlein, Pennsylvania, Measurers. Inspectors of Implements: George V. Brown an T. J. Kannally, both...