Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...
Basketball Work in Full Swing...
...Gimbel, son of Adam, was chairman of the company; his brother Isaac, president. Other brothers, their sons & nephews were vice presidents. Richard Gimbel, one of the third generation, was secretary. None of the Gimbels are sloths. But 28-year-old Richard Gimbel, nimble & active as a monkey on a swing, makes most of them seem ordinary...
...Iffley to the barge in January. Returning late from a long journey we find all deserted and quiet. From the river rises the evening fog clothing in mystery the willows on the banks. Only the rhythmical click of the oars in the row-locks breaks the silence. Eight-blades swing regularly together and softly dip. Everyone is conscious of the music fundamental to rowing
...wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge Gary. Mr. Schwab bought the broken down Bethlehem Steel Corp., and made it U. S. Steel's greatest competitor...