Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure areas, rainladen breezes from the two oceans were unable to penetrate beyond the rim of the U. S. The sun beat down through cloudless skies to blister the earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances did not cease, but they apparently moved northward from their normal track to the Hudson's Bay area of Canada where plenty of rain has fallen. Why these...
...Hitchcock who worked on the editorial staff of the New York Sun under Charles Dana, was one of the young Newport sports of 1886 who organized and played on the first U. S. international team. She started her son Thomas playing as soon as he was old enough to swing a mallet. She helped young Douglas Burden and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to learn the game...
...return of Johnny Inkslinger and his incomparably astute ideas, especially on what to do with surplus farm produce. For the U. S. farm situation never looked less happy than it did last week when Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board returned to Washington from a swing through the suntanned wheat belt (TIME, July 21). Chairman Legge had harangued planters on the economic necessity of reducing wheat acreage to eliminate their surplus. Their retort, through their Governors and Senators, was a demand for the farm board to buy more wheat and more and more until the surplus vanished...
Bluntly the British asked: why is the present League not sufficient, why are another council & secretariat needed? (The underlying reason is, of course, that the French think they could dominate a European league, whereas the worldwide League of Nations has proved too big for them to swing.) Unable to see any necessity for a second League from their point of view, the British objected that it might "emphasize or create tendencies to inter-continental rivalries and hostilities." Finally, in the strongest terms one friendly nation can use to another, the British note voiced fear that, if the European Union...
...third, a six on the fourth, and then made three birdies in succession to keep in the running. Jones had 71, Walter Hagen, back from a tour of Japan and needing practice, had 72 and so did blond, loose-jointed Horton Smith. 21-year-old Missourian whose effortless, powerful swing is stylistically better than any but that of Jones...