Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touchdowns--Dennison 1. Point after touchdown--Comstock 1 by a rush...
...caught napping, the officers who had brought a small arsenal of pistols, rifles, machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
...have ever been around a hospital you will be surprised, in the first scene, to see a roomful of internes rush off the stage as though the devil had them by the coat tails when it is announced that a patient with lacerated wrists has been brought into the emergency ward. You may smile when, in the second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive...
Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...born in West Point in 1843, christened Eliza Wyche Hitchcock, which she soon changed to Lily for euphony. Her father, a doctor, followed the Gold Rush with the high title of "Medical Director of the Pacific Coast." Lily, aged 7, sailed around the Horn with her parents. Her first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...