Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City, Andre Andersen, heavyweight Chicago boxer, landed a terrific smash upon the jaw of Wayne ("Big") Munn, noted wrestler and onetime wrestling champion of the world, who had thought he would like to break into the boxing game...
...Reserve Bank's rate advance was enough to topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction in a strong "bull" market, as proved by subsequent events. In succeeding sessions of the stock exchange, prices steadied and in some cases shot upward to new high levels. The whole episode may be dismissed as signifying nothing in particular...
...card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...evacuation of Cologne by the Allies into her acceptance of the Allied invitation to Locarno. She was promptly squelched by diplomatic reprimands from Allies, and is coming to the conference anyway. But, Stresemann should insist on introducing either of these matters at the conference, matters might go to smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that she had best keep away from a Locarno pact (see RUSSIA) , she cannot but be . influenced by so powerful a neighbor and may be able to play off the Russian threat as a reason...
...means rigging the world market for coffee, of which Brazil is the chief producing nation. Every now and again, high prices thus established would cur tail consumption and encourage large production, and a large surplus would result which would have to be held off the market lest its sale smash the artificially high prices...