Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spare. Last week it was lost to a Republican nominee for Governor by 71.523 votes. A spectacular overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into the Democratic column. When Mr. Hoover entered the White House, his party had 56 Senators, 267 Congressmen and 30 Governors in power. Last week it had 47 Senators, 214 Representatives, 20 Governors...
...might be noted that the Arlberg School differs primarily from other schools in that a crouching rather than upright position is assumed, and from the three fundamental crouching positions which reduce the center of gravity of the skier, it is easy to swing into turns and stops...
Again the surgeons insisted that there is no evidence that cancer is caused by a germ. They reapproved Dr. James Swing's suggestion of several great cancer research institutions spotted over the U. S. (TIME...
Today Mr. MacDonald, having split the Labor Party, has the solid support of all Conservatives, numerous Liberals (for he has also split that party), and finally will swing many Labor votes to a new party which he organized last week, the National Labor Party. By extremely simple arithmetic British vote dopesters could figure Scot MacDonald triumphantly returning to Parliament supported by Conservatives, split-Liberals and National Laborites who had polled together a total of from 10.000.000 to 12,000.000 ballots. But voters have a habit of fooling dopesters. Example: the last German election was called in hopes of obtaining...
...room disordered by presents which included a large red pepper, two rifles and a sheaf of telegrams inviting him on deerhunts for which he had vowed a fondness, Hero Martin was pleased but not abashed by his sudden, immense publicity. Said he: "Every time I swing, the fat part of my bat hits the ball...