Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight, most of them agreeing, however reluctantly, with a Wisconsin superintendent's statement: "The teaching profession as a whole has been too smug in it? reliance upon universal desire for good schools." Said Dr. Jesse Homer Newlon of Manhattan's Lincoln School: "It is time to smash the tradition that the teacher must be neutral in political matters. . . . They must participate actively as an organized group [more than 1% of the U. S. electorate] in the discussion and solution of many social problems...
...China at the very moment when diplomats of the Nanking Government were exchanging documents of recognition with the Soviet union. This paradox was accepted in China with complacence. Chinese cheered up. A caucus of the Kuomintang (Government "People's Party") at Nanking oozed bland contentment. By three almost unanimous smash votes the Kuomintang urged the Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 1); 2) to send money and munitions to the Chinese bandits and volunteers who continue...
...taken its economic smash with comparative calm. In 1930 when the Depression was still young the electorate swung strongly away from President Hoover and seated a Democratic House to plague him for the next two years. That was the last nation-wide index of the country's temper until the straw polls this autumn. There have been sporadic outbursts of disorder. At England, Ark. stores were raided. Near the Ford plant at Dearborn four persons were killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful...
Starring fullback Haphey as their great passing threat, the New Hampshire Wildcats will invade the Stadium at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon in an effort to stone for two straight years of defeats administered by Harvard elevens, but the powerful Crimson A team is favored to smash the visitor's aerial offensive and send the Wildcats home defeated...
Outside Congress: He lives quietly with his wife and a daughter, takes no part in capital society. His social enthusiasm is saved for the Kentucky State Society. He neither smokes nor drinks, does not go in for energetic sports. He drives his own Buick fast, once had a bad smash on a slippery road in West Virginia. In 1928 he bravely campaigned for the Brown Derby though it hurt his political standing. In 1930 he visited Russia, returning with the warning that the U. S. had much to unlearn about the Soviet. Early this year he silenced a "favorite...