Word: skyrocketed
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...team goes merely with the cash to hire the right coach and the alumni to send the right men. There is, we agree, no glory attached to that. When the Michigan team plays eleven boys who just happen to attend Harvard we shall eschew the Michigan locomotive and the skyrocket. Bue we shall keep our eyes open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading to do for economics and I'll have...
...campaign year. All Congressmen are up for reelection. As candidates, they must vote for everything that will give them talking points on the stump, deficit or no deficit. Therefore last week the House's response to President Hoover's "alarm" was passage of legislation to skyrocket the cost of Government...
...Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
Married. Adela Rogers St. John, author (Free Soul, Skyrocket) and scenario writer, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Richard ("Dick") Hyland, famed Stanford University football player...
...Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy." She shoots a taxicab driver and misbehaves generally. That is the way Author Francis Edwards Faragoh, Hungarian by birth, sees Greater New York. His Pinwheel sputters, squawks, dies like a skyrocket that never left the ground...