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...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
Other details of the Navy's slam-bang operation would have to wait. But one other fact was clear at week's end: the Navy had shown Japan that no longer is any island base beyond the striking range of Spruance's Central Pacific fleet. The overfeared power of land-based air power had been set aside by greater air power from...
Winner (with 97 points, 23 firsts) was Bobby Jones's 1930 "Grand Slam," the winning of both the U.S. and British Amateur and Open Golf Championships. Second (39 and 7) was Babe Ruth's pitching, fielding and homers. Among the 43 also-rans were two women (Babe Didrikson, Swimmer Nancy Merki) and three horses (Seabiscuit, Man o' War and Exterminator). Not a vote went to the most famous athlete in history: wrestling Jacob...
Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...
Last week the Brazilian Government was deep in a slam-bang fight to keep prices down. Latest measure: an order compelling food stores to stock essential foods, sell them at a 10% maximum profit...