Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his valet) and the Bank of England's recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded at Southampton the S. S. Bremen bound for New York. Already aboard was Governor George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fresh from a swing around Europe which included conferences with Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France in Paris and with President of the Reichsbank Hans Luther in Berlin, whence he boarded the Bremen at Bremen. Seemingly there was to be a transatlantic Norman-Harrison conference. There was a trans-channel conference...
...ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush...
...mathematical theories on the analysis of statistical data as applied to the world of business and finance, Professor Huntington said, among other things, that "the mathematician of the future, instead of evolving silly puzzles about 'How old is Anne?' may be using higher mathematical equations to figure out the swing of the next market...
...Highness later refused to deny a sensational story by Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing that the Aga Khan, bursting the bonds of his bought allegiance, privately declared to fellow Indians last week that either St. Gandhi ought to be let out of jail and brought to London or the Conference ought to move to India...
...Fargo, N. Dak. It was a set-up for McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood...