Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That queer feeling our chauffeur had when he heard a 'smack' and discovered an anti-aircraft bullet not over 10 yd. from where he was standing in front of our apartment...
...before Mr. Carlisle's visit, President Roosevelt talked with a powerman whose case is a comprehensive summation of the industry's present grave problems-Wendell Lewis Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., a billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after...
...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
Yessir, folks, we have two perfect tickets for tomorrow's game just waiting for someone smart enough to grab the opportunity. In regard to the location of the tickets, they're one on each side of Harlow, smack on the 50-yard line...
...towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed smack on a public school, killed 70 children. Hundreds of adults were shot down by planes furiously strafing the streets. Three days later Leftist bombers were over Rightist held Saragossa in turn, blew up a munition dump. Elaborately Leftist propagandists explained that this was not retaliation. Because their strength depends entirely...