Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of about seven or eight seated in the usual Friday evening position listening to the "March of TIME." How we were all enjoying the program when all of a sudden the program stops the lights go out a rattle is heard, the floor begins to sway, the lights swing from one side to another like the pendulum on a huge clock, glass is breaking, bottles are falling everywhere. We try to reach the door but the floor is swaying so that progress seems very slow...
...prospect of "Beer by April'' set the U. S. abubble with activity and excitement last week. Some bubblings: ¶Already producing near-beer under Federal license, 211 breweries announced their readiness to swing into production of the "real thing" on only ten minutes notice...
...hand. In two weeks he put through nearly two years' worth of important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing its 10,709 posts behind the President the instant Congress authorized pension cuts...
Doubts. Businessmen looking ahead saw, however, these obstacles which must be overcome before recovery gets into full swing...
...dominion, of which he is the tenth ruler. But he was neither napping nor, except intermittently, loafing. With his famed vice president, Elisha Lee, and a staff of high executives, he was halfway through his annual survey tour of North America. Routing his private car on a great swing down through the Southwest to Mexico City and up the Pacific Coast where he was last week, he had planned to swing homeward through Canada. Then came his country's call for counsel and advice, and almost simultaneously an advance copy of the report of the National Transportation Committee...