Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Second Freshman football team yesterday went down before the Andover Seconds 6.0 at the Andover field, after a slow start by the Crimson enabled the defenders to rush over the lone score in the first quarter, while the rest of the game was closely contested...
...everything as fast as possible, Russians have worked themselves into a state of five-year-planic. Two months ago Joseph Stalin sent his hard-boiled henchman, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch, to tell the frenzied subway builders of Moscow that they were going too fast. "I am displeased with so much rush work!" roared Comrade Kaganovitch. "Also Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well...
...great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant. More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir...
Hour later, old Louis Barthou, whose single bullet had opened an artery in his arm, breathed his last. It was his death as much as the King's which caused statesmen, throughout Europe, to rush excitedly to Cabinet chambers...
...another U.S. epic that has yet to be given definitive form. Poet Hill plucks his lyre with a surer hand. Though few would compare him with Homer, many would place him close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet...