Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Narrowing of the sidewalks, necessitated by the increasing rush of dog-scaring motor traffic, has caused intelligent dogs to prefer the inner side of the walk. The walls of apartment houses are uninviting, it is true, but life is sweeter than freedom. Yet last week came news that not even apartment house walls are safe, that a dog's life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose...
...into the status of a salaried "employee" of the undertaking of which he should be the center. The type of learned society which the English universities have been able to maintain and which seventy-five years ago characterized the faculties of the best American universities is dissolving under the rush of other matters and interests. "The teaching staff," says Dr. Henderson, "should be partners in a noble enterprise, not employees in an industry. A university should be a self-governing fellowship of scholars." The "autocratic organization typical of a business corporation" is hardly the ideal one for an institution...
...would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...
...Crimson started off with a rush at the face-off. Everett took possession of the puck and after fighting his way through the University Club defense threw away his chance with a wide shot. A similar opportunity was lost shortly after. Toward the end of the period the University Club threatened when the forward line was twice grouped in front of the Harvard cage but Ellis was able to keep the puck from crossing the line. The work of the goalies of both teams was the feature of the period...
...last week's price maneuver was decidedly bullish for steel companies. Confident were steelmen that the law of supply & demand will not work in their case. Rather, they contended that many a prospective buyer of steel has awaited lower prices, now will see he cannot get them, will rush into the market. Thus they viewed their move as a step toward new business activity. Not for some time will the steelmen's reasoning be submitted to the actual test of orders received. Many a financial writer last week looked back at 1921-22 when the rise of iron...