Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, they had taken visitors to the railroad station and said: "Now just watch." At 3:35 the Chief rolled in, at 3:40 the Super-Chief, and at 3:47 El Capitan slid in off the main line. There were three famous streamliners, all emitting compressed air, Hollywood producers and blondes wearing dark glasses. But after June 2, damn-it-all, the trains would come in separately...
...began. Called C'est de la Folie (It's Madness), this latest mounting of a spectacle that has more tourist appeal than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower was decidedly up to snuff. It was so glamorously dressed and undressed by turns that the critics slid right over its dull tunes and dreary gags to write rave reviews...
...Labor policy. Then, in the words of its slogan, it could go "full steam ahead." When the votes had been counted in the 182 biggest metropolitan and provincial boroughs, Labor had brushed aside most of its opposition to win 2,977 seats (a gain of 1,245). Conservative strength slid from 1,595 seats to 835, Liberals from 245 to 111. Communists upped their standing from...
...depression, which swept Durant out of the company, almost sank it. The Du Fonts saved it by buying Durant's stock, got bankers to guarantee the payment of the loans. When Pierre du Pont, after acting as president for two and a half years, stepped aside, Sloan slid into his chair. But the Du Fonts kept their stock, now hold 22.7%, virtually a controlling interest. In 1937, Sloan moved up to board chairman...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...