Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties into the Gulf of Chihli some 250 miles north. Last week "China's Sorrow" was rising in such terrifying volume that China's greatest flood experts said that they could not predict whether it would switch back to its course of 1854 or perhaps take an entirely unprecedented direction surging into thickly peopled valleys in which unsuspecting tens of thousands would be trapped...
...Teatime Switch...
...forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays last week was Governor Talmadge's rude seizure of the Democratic National Committeemanship left vacant by Editor Cohen's death...
...pocus of the diplomatic clock. They rendered thanks, not to Britain, not to their traditional friend the U. S., but to their recent enemy Japan. For Secretary Hull's State Department, though it might rise at 3 a. m. to issue an announcement, still slumbered at the diplomatic switch...
...speech marked an important switch in Soviet policy from building machines, and yet more machines at all cost, to training men fitted to operate them. Not until last week did the world realize in most dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity...