Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students at universities, do not become very excited over Rugby games, the only thing which can compare with American football, as Professor Gold-schmidt stated. The well-known German lecturer looks upon the average American as being extremely energetic, in fact a little too energetic at times. "They rush around so much and never bother to rest and reflect," he remarked. "They want to see how many miles they can make in a day, they are striving for the very best and quickest method of doing things, and the American business man who is in the biggest hurry seems...
...roof of the Pink House perched watchful machine gunners. To their officer the sound of shots in a side street, then a pell-mell rush of troops into the Square, could mean only one thing. Rat-rat-rat-rattled and spat the machine guns...
...back, was ridden down by Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother who had come down from the stands to rush to her fallen son. Twice she crossed the planked boundaries, twice Raymond shushed her back. Meantime Son Winston got up, the crowd roared, he got another pony and the game was on again...
...service in the tenth game to win the third set. Like new men, Allison & Van Ryn came out after the rest period and took the fourth set after 28 terrific games. By all accepted tennis psychology that should have meant the end of Doeg & Lott, but they stopped the rush. They felt that Allison was weakening and played for him until he cracked in the seventh game of the last set. Lott & Doeg went on to take the match, keep the title. Score...
First U. S. Saengerbund was organized in 1835 at Philadelphia, first Saengerfest held in 1849 at Cincinnati. Thereafter all over the country the German music germ spread. In the West during the woolly days of the Gold Rush, a Dr. Maleck, stout fellow of the rough frontier, led miners, gamblers, traders, hangers-on in rollicking Teutonic song. For the rest of the century, German societies sprang up, lived a short time, died. It was not until 1905 that the present Pacific Saengerbund was born. Robert Lorentz was its organizer, G. G. Reigger its leader. In 1910 the first Pacific fest...