Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will H. Hays, cinema tsar: "We are gathering momentum for an upward swing that will lead the world recovery. American prosperity will rearise, not pale and wan, from the sickbed of wasting remedies but strong and vigorous...
...Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft to be recut...
...time, the Hoover Dam." If the Secretary said that he was mistaken. Arthur Powell Davis, then U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation, was the man who started the engineering investigations and made the first report urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing, co-authors of the Swing-Johnson Bill authorizing the construction of Boulder Dam, were the men who started and carried through the ten-year congressional fight which made possible Secretary Wilbur's Silver Spike ceremony. Your footnote saying Herbert Hoover got seven affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing...
...Mohammed. The rest of Europe is less sure, but painfully interested. What if God turn out to be the Machine? It was good last week, it was very comforting to Spaniards in old Madrid (for example) to learn that Henry and Clara Ford had broken their swift 1930 swing around Europe by pausing to see the Passion Play...
...course, if you're at all chauvinistic, there's Radcliffe. But one rather overdue super patriotism these days what with the Legionnaires in full swing about the Bean City. Wellesley, no doubt, might provide relaxation for Sunday and Monday...