Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poker and take to golf. He could afford to play politics without running for office. By picking his candidates after the primaries, he steered clear of West Virginia's bitter Democratic feuds, thus stands well with such enemies as Senators Matthew M. Neely and anti-New Deal Rush Holt...
Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...
...would not give up hope. He dashed 14 miles to Wheeling, ran into the hospital, gave the baby to Dr. Edward L. Larson. Dr. Larson put Robert into a hot bath, massaged his heart, tried artificial respiration, and finally adrenalin to constrict the small blood vessels and send a rush of necessary blood to the heart. In half an hour little Robert stirred, whimpered, opened his eyes. Next day he cried, suckled, belched as lustily as ever. Little Robert's accident last week furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that 1) babies are tough, 2) superficial signs...
...after Sportsman Williams' catch, another blue marlin, a monster, was feeling warm enough to strike at a fresh squid trolled by Sportsman Julian Carr Stanley, fishing with Captain Herman Jacobsen on the launch Mongoose. The fish ripped the line from its outrigger clip on his first rush, then took the hook solidly when...
...first year in increased officers' pay, later $3,000,000 annually. Under the new regulations "all reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives on a pension of about $2,000 yearly...