Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Counting on the sparkling power which the Yorkmen turned on in the third period of the New Haven game when they just failed to tie the Crimson, the Blue sextet has its best chance in many seasons to smash the five-game winning streak chalked up by Harvard...
...doubt. Separation from the state sovereignty of the Reich cannot lead to the loss of racial or political rights' . . . Just as England defends her interests the world over, the present day Germany will be able to defend her much more limited interests." "Colonies Demanded." But the big smash of the Chancellor's speech was Hitler's ominous roar that Germany has "no differences with England-except colonies...
Until shortly before its release on the eve of Lincoln's Birthday, Of Human Hearts had been called Benefits Forgot, a title lifted from Shakespeare's wintry hyperbole on man's ingratitude.* But even Shakespearean titles sometimes lack the necessary box-office smash to put across a photoplay that has no top-ranking box-office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME...
...number of accidents charged to 'pilot error' is by no means an index to the number of errors committed. . . It is only in the mountainous regions where the clouds have solid cores [i.e., peaks against which an airplane can smash] that the errors are brought to public attention...
...fail per year. In 1930, after a year of depression the figure vaulted to 1,350. Last week the present depression had been going only six months. But in that time business generally had fallen as far as it did in the entire year after the 1929 market smash. Significant therefore was the year-end report made by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week...