Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro...
...benefit by Mr. Harkness's generosity is much worse. Of course, physical difficulties partially explain their predicament, for in adjusting the number and price of rooms to meet the demand the Bursar's Office inevitably makes some mistakes. As a result some students lose out in the rush for cheaper suites, and others, though they are willing and able to pay well, are likewise neglected...
YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMATOGROWER WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S YIELD IN THE MARYLAND TEN-TON CLUB AS "SHAMEFUL" [TIME, Nov. 26], PROMPTS ME AS HIS PROSPECTIVE TERRAPIN DINNER GUEST TO RUSH TO HIS DEFENSE WITH CORRECT FACTS AND FIGURES. TOMATOGROWER CHRYSLER PRODUCED 9.05 TONS OF LOVE APPLES INSTEAD OF 7.95 TONS REPORTED IN TIME 7.95 TONS FOR SOUPMAKER PHILLIPS' DELECTABLE CONCOCTIONS AND 1.10 TONS MARKETED ELSEWHERE. THE COMBINED YIELD REPRESENTS NEARLY DOUBLE THE NORMAL YIELD IN THE U. S. DESPITE MOST UNFAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS. BUT FOR ABNORMALITIES OF TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL DURING THE GROWTNG SEASON TOMATOGROWER CHRYSLER WOULD EASILY HAVE EATEN...
Walsh's dynamic personality was one of the outstanding features of the Harvard coaching corps this past autumn. He developed a strong rush line from material that, at the start of the season was acknowledged to be green and unseasoned. His work and proved ability, coupled with the desires of the men who played under him to a trial of at least a year. If the experiment is not a success, it will then be time for Harvard to weigh the advantages of a clean sweep at Soldiers Field...
...Commission it was scarcely that. Irate Asturians shook their fists, screamed insults and threatened to rush the guards provided by Major Doval. After half a day of leading the Commission up & down gutted streets in which priests' flesh may or may not have been sold as pork, the Major dropped a hint...